Adjusting the brightness on the backlit keyboard
There are times when the backlight on the keyboard (17 pb) makes the letters almost disappear. The only adjustment I have seen is in Preference/keyboard mouse. The only option is to illuminate the keyboard on low light conditions. Is there any other location for controling the backlight? I'd really like to make the keys brighter.
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At least this is setup on 15".
reg
Originally posted by reg
That works good for the Screen brightness but it does not seem to change the brightness of the keyboard.
reg
No no, F1 and F2 are brightness. F8, F9, F10 are backlit on, lower, and higher. Just like F3, F4, and F5 are sound off, lower, and higher.
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What's the point of having a back-lit keyboard if you don't look at it anyway?
reg
Try this.
Cover your eyes with one hand. Then hover your other over the keyboard just enough so the tips of your fingers are tuching the board. Think of a key, any key, and drop the index finger of the hand hovering on the key you think is the right one. open your eyes and see if you are right. it's just like typing with one hand in the dark.
Doing short-cuts is just as easy, just do the same thing, only with the hand that would be covering your eyes is now holding ctrl (or alt or both, mix shift in there too). Anyway, thanks to the two little bumps on the board I will never need a light on to type.
Oh and I write almost all my java apps at night without the light on. So don't think I never use odd keys and short-cuts.
Anyhow, I like the look of the back-lit keyboard. Very much so. It looks much better then the gray normal board, and I am sure it's great to show off. If I ever buy a PB I would rather spend the money on more RAM then something I don't need.
If anything I would buy a USB laptop lamp. The LED kind so it is nice and low powered. But this would be for reading papers while it is nighttime.
Sorry if I pulled this off topic. I have a habbit of doing that.
Anyhow...