
We are talking about the backlighting of the keys. Once all desired changes have been made, click OK. Some manufacturers like Dell, HP, Sony or Samsung include an interesting feature on their keyboards. Click to select the desired length of time until backlight turns off when there is no keyboard activity:ħ. To disable the backlight feature, deselect the Turn backlight on when surroundings dark checkbox.Ħ. The Turn backlight on when surroundings dark box option must be checked in order to allow user to specify the length of time until the backlight turns off. In the Backlit KB screen, to enable the backlight feature, select the Turn backlight on when surroundings dark checkbox. In the VAIO Control Center window, click Keyboard and Mouse and click Backlit KB.ĥ. In the System and Security window, click VAIO Control Center.Ĥ. In the Control Panel window, click System and Security.ģ. Not all Sony computers are equipped with this feature. Refer to the Marketing Specifications or Users Guide to see if the computer has this feature.Ģ. How to turn ON/OFF keyboard back-light for Dell Inspiron 5590 and Dell Inspiron 3593.Please find below link to find Dell Inspiron 5590 onlineAmazon : https:/.

And I have no idea what process is playing with start_triggers.Īny help if getting this back under control will be greatly appreciated.IMPORTANT: In order to use this procedure the computer must have the Backlit KB feature. I've not determined the exact parameters of when the keyboard backlight is disabled, whether it's just a matter of time, or letting the laptop sleep or something else. When I do turn on the keyboard backlight with the Fn-F6 function key (which is only supposed to be used to changing brightness), the start_triggers file is again modified by the system to "+keyboard +touchpad", but this goes away after a while with the contents reverting to "-keyboard -touchpad". My problem is that something keeps changing the file contents back to "-keyboard -touchpad", which leaves me having to turn the keyboard backlight back on using the function key - something hard to do in the dark! When the keyboard backlight turns off, keyboard or touchpad activity turns it back on. When I edit the file to contain "+keyboard +touchpad" things work for a while.

Recently I discovered that this file had been moved to /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/, where I repeated my edit, but have still been having problems that once my keyboard backlight turns off, it won't turn back on by keyboard or touchpad activity.įurther investigation showed that the contents of the file start_triggers in /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight (also found in /sys/devices/platform/dell-laptop/leds/dell::kbd_backlight) are set to "-keyboard -touchpad".
