My temporary band-aid solution was to install xfce4-power-manager which
has a slider in the status icon menu, so now I can set it (not really a
feature I want or need, but has some utility) or just check it from
there. It works for now. I'm still looking. It also allowed me to remove
the power
I just got my brightness keys working and I'm looking for a pretty
minimal "brightness indicator" to show me a rough percentage. I am
explicitly trying to avoid any Gnome or KDE dependencies, and would
prefer not to use the AUR, if there's a good one in the main repos. I'm
thinking it might
