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    Change brightness software

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by divB, Feb 5, 2013.

  1. divB

    divB Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    Is it possible to adjust the brightness with software? Optimum would be an exe with arguments so that I could create quick links.

    Reason: I have X220 Tablet and I always need to open the lid a little bit just to press FN+Home/End when in tablet mode.

    Thanks
    divB
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    I'm using the Lenovo "SimpleTap" software... it's kind of crappy, but it gets the job done. Do tell if anyone has anything better.
     
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    Oh :-( Thanks for the hint but SimpleTab is not just crappy, it is unuseable! On my *new* X220 Tablet it takes about 20 seconds until everything is loaded and started. It is overloaded, slow, ... unuseable.
     
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  4. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Remove all the tiles except the ones you want?

    I dunno why it's slow for you; mine loads almost instantly, and I haven't really removed anything.
     
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    Hmm, just used stop watch:
    Time from pressing the ThinkVantage button that SimpleTab appears: 17 seconds.
    Time until everything is loaded: 22 seconds and 26 milliseconds.
    No joke!

    Still if anyone knows a better solution (as I said, an exe or DLL which can be hooked via rundll.exe would be fantastic!)
     
    divB, Feb 5, 2013
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Maybe it's the way you are launching it? I'm not using the ThinkVantage button; I just have the little SimpleTap icon floating around. It's literally 1 or 2 seconds for me.

    EDIT: Are you using an HDD?
     
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    Even if: Where do I add systems settings as tiles?
    When I click on Add tile, I have only "Launch a program", "Open a webpage", "Open a file" ... but nowhere a settings for screen brightness ...
     
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    True, first time load takes so long. When I have this (ugly) red "SimpleTap" running, it is fast.
    But wow, this crap takes 164MB of RAM!!! No, I don't want to have that running all the time :-(

    You mean rather than an SSD?
    Yes, it is HDD.

    I want to upgrade to SSD once but I need to clarify the rumors regarding encryption first ... I use TrueCrypt for system encryption. Rumors say that this slows down with SSD because of special caching/fetching algorithms
     
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  9. Commander Wolf

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    I dunno how to add them... I had to move them all over from the next "workspace", but I had all the system tiles by default.

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  10. akadoublej

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    I don't know if f.lux would help you. It's designed for changing the screen brightness according to a clock, but it might have something in it that will work for you.
     
    akadoublej, Feb 10, 2013
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