{"id":1417,"date":"2019-07-10T10:49:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2019-07-10T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:49:58","slug":"screen-brightness-linux-lenovo-p50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/screen-brightness-linux-lenovo-p50\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen brightness: Linux + Lenovo P50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I run Ubuntu on my Lenovo P50, and the backlight keys haven&#8217;t ever worked. Here&#8217;s how I got it working.<\/p>\n<pre><code>\nsudo apt install xbacklight\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then I mapped the keys using Settings &gt; Devices &gt; Keyboard and added mappings for the following:<\/p>\n<p>Windows-F5: xbacklight -inc 5 -time 1 -steps 1<br \/>\nWindows-F6: xbacklight -dec 5 -time 0 -steps 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run Ubuntu on my Lenovo P50, and the backlight keys haven&#8217;t ever worked. Here&#8217;s how I got it working. sudo apt install xbacklight Then I mapped the keys using Settings &gt; Devices &gt; Keyboard and added mappings for the following: Windows-F5: xbacklight -inc 5 -time 1 -steps 1 Windows-F6: xbacklight -dec 5 -time 0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/screen-brightness-linux-lenovo-p50\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Screen brightness: Linux + Lenovo P50&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}