[maemo-developers] Controlling N900 Display Brightness & Display turn on

[From: Ian Stirling]

praveen koduru wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to control the Display Brightness & Display Turn off(While it 
> went to standby).
> For Display Turn on, I have increased the standby timer to 2 mins(max). 
> But I need to increase it further more say 10 mins. Can I control that?
> 
As I understand it, the general way to do this is to tell the system 
every 30s to keep the display on. This stops software accidentally 
leaving the display on.

> For Display Brightness, I need to dim and bright the Display 
> programatically, like using dbus commands.

I'm unsure if this is possible, I haven't investigated it.
I'd look at the source of simple-brightness-widget.