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From: dz@plum.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: dim dimmer
Keywords: preferences screen dimmer
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Date: 28 Aug 89 18:32:55 GMT
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I have a little problem.  I have my Preferences set up so that the
screen will dim after five minutes.  Also, as there is a window
to outside behind where I sit, I have the screen brightness set fairly
high.  That is not a problem.  The problem is this:

After the screen is automatically dimmed, when I move the mouse the
screen will undim, but only to about half of what I want.  When I click
on (not move) the scroll knob for screen brightness in the Preferences
app, the screen will go to the correct brightness.  What is going on?
How do I fix it?

While we're on the subject, how do you set things up so that the screen
will dim automatically when nobody is logged in after a very short
time?  It does dim now, but it takes a long time.  Incidentally, when
the screen dims while nobody is logged in, it undims to a reasonable
brightness.

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