Bug#302327: Laptop panel's backlight turns on when laptop is docked

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> I'm not really sure which package exactly is causing that, but I  
> think metacity is the most likely candidate. Indeed, it happens when  
> the Gnome splash screen is displaying "window manager". (I asked for  
> advice on debian-user, but got no useful response.) I guess metacity  
> turns the backlight on when it grabs the X display.
> 
> Error messages printed or logged: none that I know of.
> 
> How to demonstrate the problem: log into Gnome with laptop docked,  
> external monitor attached.

Can you login with just a terminal (in gdm, use session -> failsafe terminal).
And then run ``metacity'' manually to see if it shows the same behaviour. If it
doesn't try running xscreensaver, which could be a potential candidate.

  Sjoerd
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