# \[RESPONDED\] \[REQUEST\] Keyboard backlight control missing from Linux (gnome/kde)
**URL:** https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934
**Category:** Linux
**Created:** [November 27, 2023, 10:49am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934 "2023-11-27T10:49:36Z")
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### Author:  [@fw13amd](https://community.frame.work/u/fw13amd)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 10:49am UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/1 "2023-11-27T10:49:36Z")
Hello,
I would like to request to add support for controlling the keyboard backlight from the OS in Linux.
It was possible on my DELL and I was a bit surprised to see that it’s missing here. I’m all for exposing low-level stuff in a user-friendly way as long as it doesn’t pose any risk of being misused/causing harm.
A keyboard backlight slider would also make it immediately clear to the end user that the feature exists, since the Fn + spacebar combo might be missed by some (yes, I’ve seen posts online by FW laptop users finding out their laptop had the hardware for this after more than a year of using it daily).
Thanks a lot in advance 🙂
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### Author:  [@MJ1](https://community.frame.work/u/MJ1)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/2 "2023-11-27T12:22:38Z")
> [@fw13amd](#):
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> I would like to request to add support for controlling the keyboard backlight from the OS in Linux.
It’s being worked on
[[RESPONDED] Controlling the keyboard backlight through /sys](http://community.frame.work/t/responded-controlling-the-keyboard-backlight-through-sys/27483/)
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### Author:  [@Loell\_Framework](https://community.frame.work/u/Loell_Framework)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/3 "2023-11-27T13:02:19Z")
Also just my personal take, Would prefer any UI frontend effort whether Gnome or KDE extension/widget, should be coming from the community. 🙂
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### Author:  [@fw13amd](https://community.frame.work/u/fw13amd)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/4 "2023-11-27T13:17:01Z")
> [@Loell\_Framework](#):
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> Also just my personal take, Would prefer any UI frontend effort whether Gnome or KDE extension/widget, should be coming from the community. 🙂
Hi Loell,
to clarify my request, this was just about making the necessary bits available to the kernel, and that’s something the OEM has to do, usually (at least AFAIK) 🙂
UIs already exist both in Gnome and KDE to expose a slider control once the necessary bits are exposed by the kernel
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### Author:  [@fw13amd](https://community.frame.work/u/fw13amd)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/5 "2023-11-27T13:17:18Z")
> [@MJ1](#):
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> It’s being worked on
> [[RESPONDED] Controlling the keyboard backlight through /sys](http://community.frame.work/t/responded-controlling-the-keyboard-backlight-through-sys/27483/)
Thanks for the link, sounds great!
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### Author:  [@Loell\_Framework](https://community.frame.work/u/Loell_Framework)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/6 "2023-11-27T13:22:25Z")
> [@fw13amd](#):
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> UIs already exist both in Gnome and KDE to expose a slider control once the necessary bits are exposed by the kernel
Ah alright, got it. ☺
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### Author:  [@kirelagin](https://community.frame.work/u/kirelagin)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/7 "2024-01-21T22:42:00Z")
Yep, just upgraded my GNOME (to \>= 45) and the keyboard backlight slider works (although it seems to be a bit buggy, I am not exactly sure why, and I suspect this might actually be a bug in the kernel module, but I haven’t looked into this yet).
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### Author:  [@kirelagin](https://community.frame.work/u/kirelagin)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2024, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/responded-request-keyboard-backlight-control-missing-from-linux-gnome-kde/40934/8 "2024-03-03T15:20:11Z")
> [@kirelagin](#):
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> (although it seems to be a bit buggy, I am not exactly sure why, and I suspect this might actually be a bug in the kernel module, but I haven’t looked into this yet).
FTR, looks like it was a bug in GNOME and now it works perfectly fine after upgrading to 45.1.