Package: xfce4-power-manager
Version: 4.18.3-2
Severity: normal

After a upgrade this morning which did not include this package, the
brightness keys on this Clevo laptop no longer work.

I tried to install the version from experimental xfce4-power-manager_4.19.1-1_amd64.deb
but there were too many problematic dependencies to sort out for a quick
test.

After the upgrade the only way I could control the screen brightness was
using an echo as root to
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness



-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xfce4-power-manager depends on:
ii libc6 2.37-15
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.18.0-1+b1
ii libcairo2 1.18.0-1+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.78.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.41-1
ii libnotify4 0.8.3-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.52.0+ds-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.52.0+ds-1
ii libupower-glib3 1.90.2-8
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.7-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b1
ii libxfce4ui-2-0 4.18.4-1
ii libxfce4util7 4.18.1-2
ii libxfconf-0-3 4.18.1-1+b1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.4-1
ii upower 1.90.2-8
ii xfce4-power-manager-data 4.18.3-2

Versions of packages xfce4-power-manager recommends:
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 255.4-1
ii xfce4-power-manager-plugins 4.18.3-2

xfce4-power-manager suggests no packages.

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This morning the display blanked and flittered shortly after a boot.
This appears to be an ongoing problem with xfce4-power-manager
version 4.18.3-2.

I could not regain control and had to reboot.

The immediate problem did not recur on that reboot, and I investigated
the settings to see if something had changed. There I discovered
that the "Handle display brightness keys" toggle was off. I turned it
on, and the brightness keys then worked again. So that would seem to
have cleared this bug. However it apears that something changed those
settings, perhaps during the upgrade.

There is clearly a bug here somewhere, but perhaps not with the plugins.
So with some hesitation, I will provisionally close this bug.

ael

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