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Re: BQ Aquaris Ubuntu Edition : screen darkening

 

This bug report is also related
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-system-compositor/+bug/1437510
Screen dim is not following the lock screen timeout (always dimming after
50 seconds)
Sounds like you agree on modifying that behavior.

Pat

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Olivier Tilloy <
olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Johan Gautreau <johan13220@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi !
>
> Hi Johan,
>
>
> > I'm a happy owner of the new BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition. I'm using it
> > since the end of March and I found something a bit annoying...
> >
> > I set the screen to stop after 10 minutes of inactivity. But when I use
> the
> > phone, the screen fade to dark after a minute or two if I don't touch
> it. It
> > doesn't turn off but it became very dark. I can see things on it yet, but
> > it's very annoying when I try to watch a video or read something. If I
> want
> > to return the screen to normal state, I must touch it.
>
> This is intended, when unused the screen dims to save battery.
>
> What’s not intended however is that it’s happening when playing back a
> video. This is a known issue for webapps (the renderer tries to
> inhibit screen blanking/dimming but this is prevented by apparmor), so
> I assume you’re seeing this in the youtube app? Could you confirm that
> this doesn’t happen when watching videos on youtube.com from the
> browser?
>
>
> > I turned off the automatic luminosity, but the issue remains. I tried to
> set
> > different values for the phone sleep, but the results are the same. If
> > needed, I can do a video of this problem.
> >
> > Did anybody faces the same problem ?
> >
> > Best regard,
> > Johan
> >
> > PS : sorry for my bad English...
>
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