If anybody is versed in C I think it's possible to stop the dimming of screen to black editing /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs:
Code:
# a micro library of helper functions for the power scripts
umask 022;
PATH="$PATH:/usr/bin/X11"
POWERSTATE="/var/lib/acpi-support/powerstate"
getXuser() {
user=`finger| grep -m1 ":$displaynum " | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ x"$user" = x"" ]; then
user=`finger| grep -m1 ":$displaynum" | awk '{print $1}'`
fi
if [ x"$user" != x"" ]; then
userhome=`getent passwd $user | cut -d: -f6`
export XAUTHORITY=$userhome/.Xauthority
else
export XAUTHORITY=""
fi
}
getXconsole() {
console=`fgconsole`;
displaynum=`ps t tty$console | sed -n -re 's,.*/X .*:([0-9]+).*,\1,p'`
if [ x"$displaynum" != x"" ]; then
export DISPLAY=":$displaynum"
getXuser
fi
}
getState() {
/usr/bin/on_ac_power
if [ "$?" -eq 1 ]; then
STATE="BATTERY"
else
STATE="AC"
fi
}
#check our state has actually changed
checkStateChanged() {
# do we have our state stashed?
if [ -f "$POWERSTATE" ]; then
OLDSTATE=$(<$POWERSTATE)
if [ "$STATE" = "$OLDSTATE" ]; then
exit 0
else
#stash the new state
echo "$STATE" > $POWERSTATE
fi
else
#we need to stash the new state
echo "$STATE" > $POWERSTATE
fi
}
LAPTOP_MODE='/usr/sbin/laptop_mode'
HDPARM='/sbin/hdparm -q'
LIDSTATE='/var/lib/acpi-support/lidstate'
EDIT: /varlib/acpi-support/lidstate doesn't exist