tuxedo-backlight-control widget

[webketje]

Dear @tuxedochris,

I recently purchased a Clevo laptop and found this repository after I was frustrated that I couldn't toggle off the keyboard backlight. I'm very grateful for your (and other contributors') work! However I found it tiresome to manually modify the /etc/modprobe.d/tuxedo_keyboard file and created a bash script & GUI (with python3 & python3-tk) for it (installable with .deb package, using rmmod & modprobe).

I would really appreciate you give it a try/ your feedback, so I'll leave the link here just in case: https://github.com/webketje/tuxedo-backlight-control/. Sorry for polluting the issues here, if you're interested I can be reached at the public email in my profile.

[Lednerb]

Hey @webketje

I've just tested the Version 0.4 of tuxedo-backlight-control on Ubuntu 18.04.
I'm using a Tuxedo Infinitybook 15 v4.

It's a nice to have tool for the different modes.

However maybe you can add a functionality for the brightness.
At the moment I have the problem that I cannot fix the brightness to a specific level, it always lights up to maximum...

[webketje]

@Lednerb what you referred to in issue #16 is precisely why I didn't add a brightness toggle (because it feels like duplicate functionality given that brightness can be set through HEX colors). With release 0.5 you can define your own colors in /etc/tuxedo-backlight-control/colors.conf, but most included colors are pairs of very bright and reasonably bright variants (eg. red -> maroon, white -> gray)

[Fanelia82]

Hi

i have made a gnome extension in order to control backlight with (modified) tuxedo module.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1949/clevo-backlight-keyboard/

not perfect but working.

If someone want to help make it better, you are welcome

[ghost]

@Fanelia82 its not working with Gnome 3.34.1 and TUXEDO Keyboard

[andreaferioli]

Just bought a CLEVO N151CU (Lafitè IV from PC Specialist),
Installed ubuntu 19.10, found a way to set the tuxedo.keyboard and this awesome CONTROL WIDGET.
Now I can control the brightness (with keys Fn+ Fn-), light on\off (Fn*), and switch through 9 basic colours (Fn/).
And with the widget i can surf through different modes.

The only thing I'm not seem able to do is to set the multiple color mode. Is there a way to fix it?

Thank you for your work

[webketje]

@andreaferioli this has to do either with the tuxedo-keyboard driver not supporting multi-color or, - as I've since updated in the readme - , lack of support for your specific Clevo model (mine is N150ZU)

[StevenSeifried]

I think this issue can be closed