brightness bug in xubuntu 17 about awesome-config

[worron]

Brightness widget can use gnome-settings-daemon (default) or xbacklight as backend. As Xubuntu user you should set xbacklight support in config.

In keys-config.lua find code

-- brightness functions
local brightness = function(args)
	-- redflat.float.brightness:change_with_xbacklight(args) -- use xbacklight utility
	redflat.float.brightness:change_with_gsd(args) -- use gnome settings deamon
end

remove change_with_gsd line and activate change_with_xbacklight.

[worron]

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[xxxvik-xakerxxx]

the error disappeared but no notify

[worron]

Does brightness control work without notify? Does xbacklight work from command line?

Please show awesome error log (pastebin or similar service will be useful), usually it's ~/.xsession-errors file.

[xxxvik-xakerxxx]

Oh, well an error file
https://gist.github.com/xxxvik-xakerxxx/3577589fc0a157b29c78fe873736c748
dotfile
https://github.com/xxxvik-xakerxxx/awesomeWMtheme-adapt
I have not worked even notify updates

[worron]

Sorry, I can't see any brightness widget errors. By the way, you definitely should install pacmd utility for volume control widget.

Does xbacklight work itself? Can you show output for xbacklight -get?

Also, for testing notify add this lines to the end of rc-blue.lua and check if testing message will appear after restart

local rednotify = require("redflat.float.notify")
rednotify:show({ text = "Test", value = 0.5 })

[xxxvik-xakerxxx]

I don't use Pulseaudio, I love ALSA, I would like to customize it
xbacklight -get:

local rednotify = require("redflat.float.notify")
rednotify:show({ text = "Test", value = 0.5 })

white square displays as a notification

[worron]

I don't use Pulseaudio

Then you should disable volume widget, it causes errors. Remove "PA volume control" section and panel widget.

Brightness control with xbackloght doesn't work on your system. Hotkeys will not work unless you fix this problem. Normally brightness should be changed from command line with

xbacklight -inc 5
xbacklight -dec 5

Sorry, I can't reproduce bug with notify and I have no clue where problem is. May be trying rc-colorless as main config will give some positive results.

[worron]

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