[Ti] Force 17" PowerBook keyboard backlight to full brightness

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Ben,

Where do you save the settings to?

xx.

On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 03:44 Australia/Sydney, Benn wrote:

> (Source: macosxhints.com )
> "Owners of the awesome 17" PowerBook would all agree the backlit 
> keyboard is even more convenient than first thought.  But it does have 
> a nasty quirk - as with the display's ability to self-adjust its 
> brightness, the keyboard will likewise illuminate at a brightness 
> based on room lighting.  The problem is if you're in a dimly lit room 
> the backlight will only partially illuminate, causing the lettering 
> light up grey - and grey text on grey keys is rather difficult to 
> read.  Thus one is either constantly turning the brightness back up 
> (since it will keep turning itself back down) or just turning it off 
> entirely (at least the black lettering will be a little easier to 
> read).
> The solution is to force the backlight to be 100% whenever it's on - 
> by making the minimum light level 100%.  Pop into /Users -> 
> your_username -> Library -> Preferences, and open 
> com.apple.bezelservice.plist.  Change the value of kHWMin to 1 and 
> you're done!  Be careful playing with the other settings though -- 
> until I finally got this right, I was causing my backlight to either 
> be stuck on permanently, not work at all, or (get this!) it was 
> turning ON in the light and turning OFF in the dark!"
>
> Benn
>
>
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