GNOME Documentation Project gnome-doc-list@gnome.org Natalia Ruz Leiva nruz@alumnos.inf.utfsm.cl Shaun McCance shaunm@gnome.org Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3756@gmail.com Michael Hill mdhillca@gmail.com Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3756@gmail.com Dim the screen to save power or increase the brightness to make it more readable in bright light. Set screen brightness

You can change the brightness of your screen to save power or to make the screen more readable in bright light.

Set the brightness

Open the Settings from the Activities overview.

Open Power settings.

Adjust the Screen brightness slider to the value that you want to use. The change should take effect immediately.

Many laptop keyboards have special keys to adjust the brightness. These often have a picture that looks like the sun. Hold down the Fn key to use these keys.

To save power, you can set your screen to dim automatically if you have not used your computer for a while.

Dim screen automatically when inactive

Open the Settings from the Activities overview.

Open Power settings.

Toggle Dim screen when inactive to the On position.

The screen will automatically turn off after you have not used it for a while. This only affects the display, and does not turn off your computer. You can adjust how long you have to be inactive in the Blank screen drop down list.