www.omglinux.com Open in urlscan Pro
199.16.173.41  Public Scan

Form analysis
2 forms found in the DOM

GET https://www.omglinux.com/

<form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://www.omglinux.com/"> <label for="search-form-64df7d1e9295f"> <span class="screen-reader-text">Search for:</span> </label> <input type="search" id="search-form-64df7d1e9295f"
    class="search-field" placeholder="Search and press Enter" value="" name="s"> <button type="submit" class="search-submit"><i class="icon-search"></i><span class="screen-reader-text">Search</span></button></form>

<form id="jp-carousel-comment-form"> <label for="jp-carousel-comment-form-comment-field" class="screen-reader-text">Write a Comment...</label><textarea name="comment" class="jp-carousel-comment-form-field jp-carousel-comment-form-textarea"
    id="jp-carousel-comment-form-comment-field" placeholder="Write a Comment..."></textarea>
  <div id="jp-carousel-comment-form-submit-and-info-wrapper">
    <div id="jp-carousel-comment-form-commenting-as">
      <fieldset> <label for="jp-carousel-comment-form-email-field">Email (Required)</label> <input type="text" name="email" class="jp-carousel-comment-form-field jp-carousel-comment-form-text-field" id="jp-carousel-comment-form-email-field">
      </fieldset>
      <fieldset> <label for="jp-carousel-comment-form-author-field">Name (Required)</label> <input type="text" name="author" class="jp-carousel-comment-form-field jp-carousel-comment-form-text-field" id="jp-carousel-comment-form-author-field">
      </fieldset>
      <fieldset> <label for="jp-carousel-comment-form-url-field">Website</label> <input type="text" name="url" class="jp-carousel-comment-form-field jp-carousel-comment-form-text-field" id="jp-carousel-comment-form-url-field"></fieldset>
    </div> <input type="submit" name="submit" class="jp-carousel-comment-form-button" id="jp-carousel-comment-form-button-submit" value="Post Comment">
  </div>
</form>

Text Content

Menu


OMG! LINUX

Search
 * 
 *  * RSS Feed
    * Linux Apps
    * Mastodon


 * OMG! LINUX

 *  * Google News
    * Twitter
    * Submit News

 * 

Search for: Search


OMG! LINUX

 * Recent Distro Releases
 * Apps
 * App Updates
 * Linux Hardware
 * About This Blog
 * Twitter
 * Submit News
 * RSS Feed

 * Posted in
 * * News


KEYBOARD BACKLIGHT CONTROL ADDED TO GNOME 45

 * 
 * Posted byby Joey Sneddon
 * August 12, 2023
 * 21 Comments

 * share
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 

Among the many new features in GNOME 45 is keyboard backlight control from the
Quick Settings menu.

When GNOME 45 (currently in beta) is running on a device with compatible,
configurable backlit keyboard present a new keyboard toggle is shown in the
drop-down status menu.

Clicking on the keyboard toggle turns your keyboard backlight on or off.
Clicking on the arrow icon to the right of the toggle unfurls an interactive
slider you can use to adjust the brightness of your keyboard’s backlight.

The new keyboard toggle (and slider) in GNOME 45 beta

That’s pretty much all there is to this new toggle — but all there needs to be,
really.

Many backlit keyboards let you change brightness directly on the device itself,
either using dedicated keys or a keyboard shortcut combo.

But not all do.

Thus, adding a toggle to the Quick Settings menu on devices with compatible
hardware is a welcome change.

And I speak from experience.

Prior to now I’ve had to make do workarounds when it comes to adjusting my own
laptop’s backlit keyboard on Linux.

On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS I used the Keyboard Backlight Slider GNOME extension. This
offers a slider to adjust keyboard backlight from the Status Menu (familiar,
eh?). Sadly that add-on requires GNOME 42 or earlier (i.e. pre-Quick Settings
version).

For the past few Ubuntu and Fedora releases, I’ve run a manual script that
adjust my keyboard backlight at a lower-level. Though this isn’t not a major
hassle to use it’s not exactly frictionless since it requires me to switch
attention from whatever I’m doing to run it.

So I welcome this addition.

Want to try it out?

GNOME 45 will be released in September. A number of Linux distributions plan to
ship it, including Fedora 39 Workstation (or Fedora Workstation 39, can never
which way around it goes) and Ubuntu 23.10. Rolling release distros are,
naturally, a given.

Home > News > Keyboard Backlight Control Added to GNOME 45

 * Development
 * GNOME 45
 * keyboard backlight

 * share
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 


JOEY SNEDDON

Joey Sneddon is a purveyor of puns and arbitrator of alliteration. Or at least,
that's what he says. When he's not blogging he's buying toys, feeding cats, and
attempting to install Linux on things he shouldn't…


 * omg! linux! - covering the worlds of linux and open source
 * * About
   * Privacy
   * Commenting
   * omg! ubuntu!

 

Loading Comments...

 

Write a Comment...
Email (Required) Name (Required) Website