HP Spectre x360 15t 5KC45AV

Documentation of setting up Elementary OS 5.1 Hera on HP Spectre x360 15t 5KC45AV

Table of Contents

• Script
• Enable WiFi
• Brightness Fix for OLED
• Disable suspend
• Qt apps dark theme
• Sources

Script

A menu to install apps and configure settings

./setup.sh

Enable WiFi

Install 5.4.10 kernel from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/

wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-headers-5.4.10-050410_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-headers-5.4.10-050410-generic_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-image-unsigned-5.4.10-050410-generic_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.4.10/linux-modules-5.4.10-050410-generic_5.4.10-050410.202001091038_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-*.deb linux-image-*.deb linux-modules-*.deb

Edit /etc/default/grub, set

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi='!Windows 2013' acpi_osi='!Windows 2012' snd_hda_intel.dmic_detect=0"

Run sudo update-grub to regenerate GRUB config

Sound and WiFi are working

Source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1876701#p1876701

Brightness Fix for OLED

The monitor-backlight script listens to display changes and the set-bright script sets the initial display brightness as a percentage from 0 to 1.0.

Settings > Applications > Startup > Add Startup App... > Type in a custom command
/usr/local/bin/monitor-backlight
and
/usr/local/bin/set-bright 0.45

Source: AW13 OLED Monitor Brightness

Disable suspend

Laptop won't wake from suspend, and requires power cycling. To disable suspend, create the following file as root:

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.disable-suspend.pkla

[Disable suspend (upower)]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
ResultActive=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultAny=no

[Disable suspend (logind)]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend
ResultActive=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultAny=no

[Disable suspend when others are logged in (logind)]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.suspend-multiple-sessions
ResultActive=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultAny=no

Source: How to disable suspend in 14.04?

Qt apps dark theme

sudo apt-get install qt5ct

Open Qt5 Settings app and select gtk2 from the style dropdown

Append the following lines to ~/.profile

unset QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE
export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qt5ct"

Source: r/elementaryos Qt apps not conforming to dark theme

Sources

• Dark themes for writing
• Keybindings