

I did notice that during in the live environment, the XFCE-4 version I was able to control both the keyboard and display backlight brightness using the default keyboard shortcuts on the macbook keyboard (f2, f3, f6, f7) and I even got a visual indicator on screen that updated as I changed the brightness levels. It is not really an ideal way and would like a more elegant solution. So far I am able to setup most of the things I want except for the keyboard and display backlight, I am aware that I can adjust these things in the files located in /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight. I have installed EOS (i3-wm) on my macbook pro 8,1 early 2011 and been playing around with it for some weeks, I am really enjoying the whole window manager aspect of it. New to the forum and to the linux world in general.
