ACPICBKBD(4)

💅 ACPICBKBD(4) — the Kernel Interfaces Manual page, bestie edition

okay so this is section 4 of the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and the star of the show is acpicbkbd. say hi 👋

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✨ NAME ✨

acpicbkbd — Chromebook keyboard backlight 🌈

like, literally the thing that makes your keyboard glow. you're welcome.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

acpicbkbd* at acpi?

that's it. that's the whole vibe. * and a ? and we're done. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you've got a Chromebook laptop, and it has supported hardware (key detail!! not all of them, check first 🫶). The acpicbkbd driver is the little main character that enables adjustment of the keyboard backlight level on those Chromebook laptops. it's giving "your keyboard can finally glow and you can control it" energy ✨

and the way you actually touch the backlight levels? not with some weird new tool, no no. you retrieve them and modify them with the wsconsctl(8) variable keyboard.backlight. that's the whole access path. remember that name, iykyk 💜

so: read it there, change it there. keyboard.backlight. got it? got it. 🎀

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• acpi(4)
• wsconsctl(8)

go read those too, they're part of the lore 📚

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

The acpicbkbd driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.0. so it's been serving looks since 2016, no cap 👑

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The acpicbkbd driver was written by joshua stein <jcs@openbsd.org>. thank you joshua, fr fr 🙏💖

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this one came out of the Debian world, dated August 23, 2016 — so yeah, go forth and glow, bestie 🦋✨🎀