Backlight key always on

This computer has the f5 key lit up. I press the key and all the keys light up. i press the key again and all the keys go dark but this key stays light. Is this normal? can I make this f5 key not be lit all the time ? I really dont want to have only this one key on all the time its distracting
thank you

Hi,
Sounds like very normal for this series. Other users also see that:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/hp-spectre-x360.772405/
Regards.
BH
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I found out why: they control /sys/class/backlight/toshiba/brightness instead of /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness. I wasn't able to change that, although testing the kernel parameters acpi_backlight=vendor and acpi_osi='!Windows 2012'. That tip (bottom of the page) given in the arch wiki had no effect OR didn't even let me boot when I tried to adjust the BusID to the output of lspci...
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Assigning these scripts to keys also works with "sudo darker" / "sudo brighter" and adding them via visudo.
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Thanks, that's quite good, except that multiple key-presses lead to multiple notification popups which is not sooo nice bad acceptable. (And as this is run by root, a sudo xfce4-notifyd-config is necessary to configure the notification.)
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then
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fi
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then
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fi
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[SOLVED] Backlight keys not working

The backlight keys on my laptop aren't working in arch. xbacklight also does not work. Both of these things work in Ubuntu. Here is my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT:
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ter_resume.
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maxo wrote:
Hey. If you aren't using the nvidia graphics card then this works on mine.
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