alexmohr/keyboard-backlight

Controls the keyboard backlight of notebooks to conserve power by turning keyboard backlight off when not in use

keyboard-backlight's Issues

Keyboard not detected (MacBook Pro Early 2015)

Hello, thank you for this very useful program.

The keyboard is not detected on my MacBook Pro Early 2015.

cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=0273 Version=0110
N: Name="Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:14.0-5/input1
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.1/0003:05AC:0273.0004/input/input6
U: Uniq=D3H50965291FTV3AG2PS
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd leds event6 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=10000 0 0 0 1007b00011007 ff9f217ac14057ff ffbeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=1f

The problem is that the word "Keyboard" is capitalized in the "Name" line so the program doesn't detect the keyboard if I don't modify the kbd_backlight.cpp file before compilation.

‘sleep_for’ is not a member of ‘std::this_thread’

...
[ 50%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/keyboard_backlight.dir/kbd_backlight.cpp.o
/home/milk/.cache/yay/tp-kb-backlight-git/src/keyboard-backlight/kbd_backlight.cpp: In function ‘void brightness_control(const string&, long unsigned int)’:
/home/milk/.cache/yay/tp-kb-backlight-git/src/keyboard-backlight/kbd_backlight.cpp:248:35: error: ‘sleep_for’ is not a member of ‘std::this_thread’
  248 |                 std::this_thread::sleep_for(sleepTime);
      |                                   ^~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/keyboard_backlight.dir/build.make:76: CMakeFiles/keyboard_backlight.dir/kbd_backlight.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:137: CMakeFiles/keyboard_backlight.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
...

Mouse detection bug

Hi, great application!

I've noticed a bug when deploying this application in fydeos, but on reviewing the source, I see a possible bug in the -M choices 0,1,2.

I've not seen this issue on fedora, ubuntu etc and even brunch, but I think it must be down to the driver being used.

Basically, in 0 (default) the code was missing my: -

/dev/input/by-id/pci-0000:00:15.0-platform-i2c_designware.0-event-mouse -> ../event9

I think it relates to https://github.com/alexmohr/keyboard-backlight/blob/master/kbd_backlight.cpp#L473

I was able to workaround by specifying -m 1 (internal only), but really, option 0 should pick this up.

Notes

Notes

• Keyboard event cat by-path/platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd

Check CPU load after hibernation

It might be possible that the cpu load of this application is very high after the system resumes from hibernation

Does not detect keyboard

The program does not detect my Lenovo Thinkpad X270's integrated keyboard as a device which can turn the backlight back on after it has been turned off. All mice devices lights it up correctly.

In the help menu it says:
-i ignore an input device
This device does not re enable keyboard backlight.
Separate multiple device by space.
Default: use all mice and keyboard.

So I assume that it should use keyboard pressing as a trigger too, right?