Macbook Backlight Keyboard Keybindings

[SunlightRider]

I own a Macbook, and finally decided to quit the "advanced" distro's which the only thing i did was keep fixing small details, and chose Fedora mainly because It's elegant. But oh well, here goes the deal:

I have made a script to control the backlight keyboard, increasing or decreasing the light intensity. The scripts works flawlessly. As the script writes to a file in /sys/ it needed root permissions, so i made a line in sudoers for it to be executed using sudo wthout promting for a password. This also works.

The problem is I want to keybind it to the Mac Keys, which are named XF86KbdBrightnessUp & Down.

I have used gnome-keybinding-properties and no luck.

I have also tried the gconf-editor metacity approach, if the name of the keys do not change using gconf. (i set the commands using the names XF86KbdBrightnessUP & down. and still no luck.

This has probably been anwsered, but It's a hard search since It's very specific, so here goes the new thread.

Thank you all.

This is the script BTW just for the search engine index record.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#use warnings;

my $salto = 15;

open(ARCHIVO, "/sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness") || die("No se encontro el Archivo de Brightness\n");
@intensidad = <ARCHIVO>;
close(ARCHIVO);
chomp(@intensidad[0]);


my $var = @intensidad[0];
my $mas = $var + $salto;
my $menos = $var - $salto;

if($ARGV[0] eq "up" && $mas <= 255){
	system("echo $mas > /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness");
}elsif($ARGV[0] eq "down" && $menos >= 0){
	system("echo $menos > /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness");
}

[Min]

Hmm, interesting. The one that I know and use, instead of using

/sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness

I use (for unibody macbook late 2008)

/sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

[bob]

(moved to Mac)

[SunlightRider]

Originally Posted by Min

Hmm, interesting. The one that I know and use, instead of using

/sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness

I use (for unibody macbook late 2008)

/sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

It's the same file :P, those backslashes before the dots "\." the backslash is called an escape character, It's just for telling the terminal that the following character is an actual "." and not a dot part of some command.

The one you use, also works for me. I'm gonna try doing it by writing on that one, must be the same though, just hoping some magic appears.

[Min]

I thought that it was sysmlink-ed but it is not.

I binded mine to command+> or Command+<

#!/bin/sh

current=`cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness`

new=$[$current$1]
if [ $new -ge 255 ]; then
new=255
fi
if [ $new -lt 0 ]; then
new=0
fi
echo $new > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

That is mine. I invoke by those mentioned key to invoke "keyboard-brightness -64" and "keyboard-brightness +64"

EDIT: I usually "chmod a+rw /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness" to give the write access (not the best security practice though)

[SunlightRider]

Thing is, the actual problem is happening inside Gnome. It's not running my keybinded script, no matter what the key is. I've also tried gconf editor, but no luck.

[Min]

Originally Posted by SunlightRider

Thing is, the actual problem is happening inside Gnome. It's not running my keybinded script, no matter what the key is. I've also tried gconf editor, but no luck.

can you add
notify-send "run"

to make sure your script is really not executed? I use xbindkeys for binding my shortcut. I use it because it is DE independent. Most of the time i use xfce, but at time I do run gnome or kde.

[SunlightRider]

Jsanchez[@]~/Scripts$notify-send run "/usr/bin/kb-backlight.pl up"

This was made on the console.

does notify, this means the script is executable by the user, and yes, gnome does popo that notify icon.

I Will check out some guide for XbindKeys when i have the time, probably in a little while.

Edit: I just added the notify into the binded command key. The following error goes on.

"Error While trying send-notify run sudo /usr/bin/kb-backlight which is binded to..."