Advanced brightness applet bugs - help

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  1. It won’t open on click.
    I’ve installed the advanced brightness applet. When I click on its icon in the Top Panel nothing happens. It does not expand. Workaround: I have to click on another applet next to it (so that apples has an open state), and then move the mouse pointer over for the brightness applet for it to expand.

  2. It doesn’t work well together with the Night Light applet.
    Advanced brightness applet breaks the night light when it is adjusted.

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Any errors reported in a terminal if you restart the panel and then try to open the applet popover?

budgie-panel --replace &
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Here is the output when I start Budgie-panel

INFO:root:start
INFO:root:Menu shown
INFO:root:Fetcher started
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    %  Total T    % iRecemived e% Xfe  r d  Av erage  STpieed  me   TimeC    uTirme   r  Timee n tC
urren t
                                           Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0       0       0     0          0             0        D l o0a d- - :U-p-l:o-a-d  - - :T-o-t:a-l-   - -S:p-e-n:t- -      L e f0t  Speed
100    15  100    15    0     0     48      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--    48
100    15  100    15    0     0     48      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--    48
[2018-12-30 11:14:11.569754] MyLog e:  BackLightHelper : Error:6030
[2018-12-30 11:14:11.570037] MyLog i:  BackLightHelper : No backlight detected
[2018-12-30 11:14:11.593017] MyLog e:  BackLightHelper : Error:6031
[2018-12-30 11:14:11.593286] MyLog i:  BackLightHelper : No backlight detected
** Message: 11:14:11.667: libsession.vala:50: DESKTOP_AUTOSTART_ID not set, session registration may be broken (not running budgie-desktop?)

** (budgie-panel:23155): WARNING **: 11:14:11.777: BudgieMenuWindow.vala:298: Software has no parent directory, not adding to menu


(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.381: gtk_widget_set_accel_path: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.381: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.382: gtk_widget_set_accel_path: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.382: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.385: gtk_widget_set_accel_path: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.385: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.385: gtk_widget_set_accel_path: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.385: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.386: gtk_widget_set_accel_path: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

(budgie-panel:23155): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:14:12.386: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed
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Here is the output when I press the Advanced Brightness applet:

(budgie-panel:23155): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 11:15:05.490: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID

(budgie-panel:23155): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 11:15:35.490: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID

(budgie-panel:23155): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 11:16:05.489: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID

(budgie-panel:23155): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 11:16:35.490: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID
[2018-12-30 11:17:05.284350] MyLog e:  BackLightHelper : Error:6031
[2018-12-30 11:17:05.285191] MyLog i:  BackLightHelper : No backlight detected
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/budgie-desktop/plugins/budgie-advanced-brightness-controller/AdvancedBrightnessController.py", line 137, in indicatorBoxOnClick
    self.updadeBrightness()
  File "/usr/lib/budgie-desktop/plugins/budgie-advanced-brightness-controller/AdvancedBrightnessController.py", line 166, in updadeBrightness
    self.brightnessValueLabel.set_text("%.0f" % brightness)
AttributeError: 'AdvancedBrightnessControllerApplet' object has no attribute 'brightnessValueLabel'

(budgie-panel:23155): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: 11:17:05.491: Unable to replace properties on 0: Error getting properties for ID
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Looks like the code is expecting a backlight for your computer … which you may or may not have.

That’s a bug. It is pretty straightforward python code which you can have a go to fix yourself.

If you cannot press the ? next to the applet in budgie-applets application where you installed the app. This will open your browser to the third party applet developer website where you should report this issue with the results above.

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Yeah well I don’t have any background in Python but I could always pull it off I guess.

Wouldn’t it be awesome to combine Night Light and Brightness into one applet? Wow that would be amazing.