If I use the Upower method the backlight setting at shutdown is used on reboot.
I want the keyboard always off at reboot the cron job is the way to go.
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This might help somebody:
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by Ruskin » Sat Aug 05, 2023 6:29 pm
By default the keyboard backlight turns on automatically on startup and various other times. If you want to disable it entirely you can open "/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UPower.conf" with root privileges by running...
Disable Automatic Keyboard Backlight on MATE
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Anybody know if there is any way to implement such changes as a parameter definition component of the
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
variable in
/etc/default/grub ?
I prefer to have anything hardware-related forced at boot ... before the GUI comes up.
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Thank you, CrazyDesi, you are a true hero. This worked on my Thinkpad A485 with Debian 12 Bookworm.
It is unfortunate that my desktop session can not remember my backlit status when waking up from suspended state nor when I log in.
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