Penguin Notes: LCD Brightness, Firefox Annoyances

A few notes to self, trying to make my new OpenSuse desktop more hospitable.

Annoyance 1:
The laptop brightness controls did not adjust the brightness on KDE 4 running on OpenSuse 11.2. (They worked on Ubuntu Jaunty earlier). Neither could I find brightness sliders anywhere in KDE panels. This helped:

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$ xbacklight -set 70

The value range is from 0 thru 100. Oddly, the laptop’s brightness shortcuts are BIOS controlled, so I wonder why they are dependent on the OS.

Annoyance 2:
A Ctrl+Bksp (Control + Backspace) on the Firefox address bar erased the entire address. I’m accustomed to using Ctrl + Bksp to erase segments of the URLs (“/” separated). The fix was in the Firefox “about:config”

  • Firefox Address bar: “about:config”
  • Filter by “layout”. Edit this item “layout.word_select.stop_at_punctuation”
  • Change that to a true

May 9th, 2010 | Linux | Tags: , | 0 Comments