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I have a vintage GD8000 laptop running Linux Mint 18.3, and I'm having trouble turning off the autodim feature.
I have turned off autodimming in Mint's preferences, and I have also turned it off in the GD8000's BIOS. However, the screen still dims after 90 seconds of input inactivity.
Is there a way I can turn off the autodim feature so it actually stays off?
--UPDATE--
I've observed a little more closely, and the screen is not precisely being dimmed, in the sense of backlighting remaining on but being at a lower intensity. The backlighting is turning off completely. (But the screen is still "painted" and can be partially seen in bright light.) I suspect this is not a Linux issue.
Hello, and welcome to Superuser and Stackexchange! For my information, do the commands work for all login sessions, or for the current login session only, so I need to put them in
~/.login
or such? – Christos Hayward – 2018-04-28T14:25:26.370@JonathanHayward Thank you! Any setting you modify through the settings-daemon will persist forever unless you change it, or Gnome removes it in an update or something. – Nathaniel Pisarski – 2018-04-28T14:29:46.683
Ok. I've made those changes, and it appears to be back to old tricks. It dims after 90 seconds. – Christos Hayward – 2018-04-28T14:34:53.060