Is it possible to get an option in power or keyboard settings to set a timeout for the keyboard backlight, separate from screen dimming?
If I’m watching a video or similar on my laptop, I don’t want the screen dimming, but I’d like if the keyboard went dark after 10-15 seconds of inactivity, and light up again as soon as I touch the trackpad or press a key.
I think Dell laptops handle this automatically, but Asus just stays on the set brightness until it’s changed by me or the OS.
Not at the moment. This seems like a reasonable use case though. Would you mind filing a bug (with “wishlist” severity) at https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Powerdevil so we don’t forget about this?
Thanks for the reply!
Sure, I’ll go write a ticket there.
meanwhile you are waiting for the feature, you could use hypridle from hyprland project. if you want it with dnf to install it I recommend using copr solopasha/hyprland . I’m using it with kde fine my hypridle configs
general {
}
listener {
timeout = 10
on-timeout = brightnessctl -d asus::kbd_backlight s 0
on-resume = brightnessctl -d asus::kbd_backlight s 2
}
read more about hypridle from hyprland wiki
Yo, thanks a lot!
That worked really well. Does exactly what I need.