Plasma Mobile - How supposed to change screen brightness?
#1
When booting up with Plasma Mobile, the screen brightness is set to minimum.

Looking at the action menu at the top, I can find two icons which look like any other ions of suns indicating brightness. In this case there is no slider, and pressing on the icons does nothing.

Any ideas?


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#2
> > Screen brightness is in settings under Power.

Of the Distro's I have tried myself, I have not yet seen one with a shortcut on the top drop down menu.

BUT it may be on their roadmap for the future.
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There is no menu "Power" in the settings in Plasma Mobile I can find.
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Manjaro/Plasma ?
I don't have that OS in any of my phones at the moment, guess I can flash an sd card and look again.
Seems I remember the settings menu 'was' the same as Mobians.
It has been a while, so I guess it could be interesting to look at Manjaro again.
I'll take a look and get back to here.
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So I have Manjaro Plasma on a sd card running on a PMOS Convergent phone now...

Sure has lots of eye candy !   Big Grin

But lots of stuff appears to not work ?
  I did make a few outgoing calls, and incoming.
..*  and now it says modem is NOT connected !  >(the icon at the top shows connected & strong signal ? )
..... but it will make a call ?
  Text will randomly send after hitting send repeatedly, 

Thinking updates might help, I am attempting to do updates... It shows a whole page of updates.
It did do updates but it was just a black screen with no progress indicators.

I cannot find any Brightness settings ether.
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There is an "Energy" setting, but that is for screen dim and lock. I think best to do updates in SSH. I have noticed many distros will fail in the GUI.

I also have the Manjaro Phosh on the eMMC card , and I the modem will shut down after booting, and unlocking the screen.
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(10-06-2021, 06:50 PM)KNERD Wrote: There is an "Energy" setting, but that is for screen dim and lock. I think best to do updates in SSH. I have noticed many distros will fail in the GUI.

I also have the Manjaro Phosh on the eMMC card , and I the modem will shut down after booting, and unlocking the screen.

....  yesterday when I tried Plasma,  it said no modem detected,  * but it still made and received calls and did 2 way texts  ? ? Huh
        I tried multiple separate times to put in my APN information,  * but it kept  reverting to it's original settings.

The appearance is quite impressive,  ... but function, not so much....   (actually disappointing and frustrating)

* Curious :  Why did they do NOT include screen brightness in the "Settings" ?   *<(Perhaps it needs it own separate App.?)>

 ***  I would think "Seeing the screen" should certainly be a Priority item.
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Again - I don't understand what are you doing there Big Grin
Screen brightness slider is in the screen top side pulldown menu - at first there will be shown row with 5 icons and below them a little arrow (+ notifications window), pulling that arrow down there will be other top menu icons and screen brightness slider Wink
Running beta7+updates here Smile
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(10-07-2021, 10:54 PM)acrux Wrote: Again - I don't understand what are you doing there Big Grin
Screen brightness slider is in the screen top side pulldown menu - at first there will be shown row with 5 icons and below them a little arrow (+ notifications window), pulling that arrow down there will be other top menu icons and screen brightness slider Wink
Running beta7+updates here Smile


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So, where is that slider?
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Here Big Grin
As said - Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-pinephone-beta7.img + updates. Also using Breeze Dark theme, colors etc everywhere.
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