[YLUG] screen brightness

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Paul Gibbs
<paul-listmonkey at pacem.plus.com> wrote:
> nigel white wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> My laptop screen has gone dim. Not very dim, but too dim for comfortable
>> viewing.
>>
>>
> Possibly a silly question but have you tried the brightness function
> keys. I've not seen a laptop yet that doesn't have these and they all
> seem to override the OS. I'm not sure where the keys are on a DELL but
> Fn + [brighntess logo]. (Probably Fn is next to left CTRL and the
> brightness icon is probably in blue on the F-keys.

Indeed and also I presume that the OP knows that when running from
battery only most laptops automatically reduce brightness to conserve
power but the Fn+ brightness keys usually will change to what you want
if you accept a shorter battery run.

-- 
mike