[Mactel-linux-users] HOWTO backlight keyboard shortcuts

[Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...>]

Hello,

The software backlight [1]  to change the screen back light works
great from the command line. But unfortunately GNOME cannot (or I did
not find how to do) map a key on a user defined action. So I use
xbindkeys [2] to map the F1/F2 keys to two commands. It is very easy
to configure using xbindkeys-config.

My ~/.xbindkeysrc file contains:

#Remark
"backlight -10"
    m:0x0 + c:101
    NoSymbol

#Remark
"backlight +10"
    m:0x0 + c:212
    NoSymbol

Of course you have to (automatically) start xbindkeys on each session
start and the key short cuts only works when you are logged in i.e.
not in the gdm screen or in text consoles.

I hope it helps.

Bye,

[1] http://www.boichat.ch/nicolas/macbook-tools/
[2] http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html, also available as a
Debian package

-- 
  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau