The state of OLED brightness on Linux

I bought myself a laptop with an OLED-panel (XPS 7590), unbeknownst that brightness adjustment actually isn't supported in Linux.

This is something that I can live with, the xrandr hack is working fine, although with a caveat, which is reduced color depth at low brightness.

But I'm very curious to why this has been the case for so long, and why I can't seem to find any mailing lists or ongoing discussions around this fundamental flaw. OLED has been out for a while now, and laptops with OLED is starting to become commonplace, at least in the high-end market. It would be terribly disappointing for many Linux users to find out that their fancy new laptop is lacking something as basic and essential as screen brightness control.

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The FUTURE of Computing Performance - CoreTeks on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=qZ7CeYF6jLE&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3PjNgRWmv90%26feature%3Dshare

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Found a Linux user in the wild
https://redd.it/cmizub
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App for tracking computer usage??

looking for something that monitors which apps are being focused and for how long, only found "thyme" (which is not maintained) and two big enterprise solutions.

https://redd.it/cmke9t
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I want to untar themes and icon packs but apparently I don't have the right permissions. I've tried the terminal method as shown below. I've also tried the GUI method of right click, extract to, other location usr/share/icons with zero luck. How do I get the tar.gz to unpack where I want them to?
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So I tend to lurk and are on the cusp of building my pc

I plan to dual-boot using Majaro and Windows 10. My question is which should I do first so I can access all my files on either OS? I want to use Linux for programming and system maintenance and such. But all the games I want to play work best on Windows plus all the browsers are made for Windows. I just want full control ALL the time

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Improving the appearance of CSD applications in KDE Plasma 5
https://schristiancollins.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/improving-the-appearance-of-csd-applications-in-kde-plasma-5/

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File manager nnn v2.6 released with many new features
https://github.com/jarun/nnn/releases/tag/v2.6

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Control grub without keyboard or Mouse
https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/cmq9n7/control_grub_without_keyboard_or_mouse/

https://redd.it/cmqjld
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FreeCAD BIM development news July 2019
https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Workbench/wiki/FreeCAD-BIM-development-news-28---July-2019

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FFmpeg 4.2 released with AV1 decoding support & more
http://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr4.2

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GNOME 3.33.90 released (First 3.34 Beta / Feature/API freeze)
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2019-August/msg00001.html

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Interview: Why Canonical views the Snap ecosystem as a compelling distribution-agnostic solution
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-canonical-views-the-snap-ecosystem-as-a-compelling-distribution-agnostic-solution/

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RockPi and an easy place: Panfrost & Wayland on a Rockchip board

Ongoing work on the reverse-engineered Panfrost OpenGL ES driver for Arm Mali GPUs has turned the RK3399 SoC into a very attractive platform to try out Wayland on ARM devices.

[https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/08/06/rockpi-panfrost-wayland/](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/08/06/rockpi-panfrost-wayland/)

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Creating a Python package for Ubuntu… From code zero to apt install
https://medium.com/@trstringer/creating-a-python-package-for-ubuntu-from-code-zero-to-apt-install-d02d0108144c

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How to fix the very short mouse-wheel scroll distance in Firefox

Here's how to fix it to be more like the Windows Firefox experience:

Go to:

about:config

Change the value of:

mousewheel.acceleration.start

from -1 to 1

Enjoy a better scrolling experience.

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Text Based Game in Bash - Help Wanted

Hello! I am a 16 year old who just got into programming. I am fairly new, but I have been trying to learn Bash. I thought a fun project I can attempt is to to make a small text based game based on "Lemonade Stand" from the late 70s. I created a very simple version (works, most of the time) and put it on Github. It would be great if you guys can maybe take a look, give me some feedback (I know my code will be revolting, but hope to learn how to improve it) or even contribute!

I am actively working on it, adding new stuff every few days. It is still in it's really early stages, and I plan to make it something much much bigger then this. I would really appreciate it if you guys can watch the repository and give it a star. It would mean a lot!

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Thanks! [https://github.com/lucaswhitaker22/bash\_cafe](https://github.com/lucaswhitaker22/bash_cafe)

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Slackware is creating a secure, full featured, bloat-free Linux-based operating system | Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/slackwarelinux/overview

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Alternatives to ShareX for Linux?

Hey guys, when I used Windows there was a program called ShareX that could do loads of tasks. It's open source and was a great program overall. You could screenshot, screenrecord (NVEC, MP4, webms, gifs), upload files (screeenshots and recordings) and shorten links, etc. Is there any program similar to ShareX for Linux? Help is appreciated, thanks!

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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - August 07, 2019

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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Zero-Day Bug in KDE 4/5 Executes Commands by Opening a Folder
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zero-day-bug-in-kde-4-5-executes-commands-by-opening-a-folder/

https://redd.it/cn174c
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