GNOME Control Center Brings Support for Display Dimming via Ambient Light Sensors

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Marius Nestor
Jun 5, 2015

GNOME Control Center, which has just been updated to version 3.17.2, bringing a feature that has been reported a while ago, namely an automatic brightness switch in the Power section (see the attached screenshot). Also, the Bluetooth power section will no be automatically hidden when there’s no Bluetooth available, and the “When battery power is critical” label has been removed from the Power section because it is no longer configurable by end-users due to the move to UPower 1.0.

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Marius Nestor

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