Comment 7 for bug 199522

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 199522] Re: Dim on idle does not brighten with activity

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 03:57 +0000, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> I'd be happy to give it a try but could you explain a bit how to do it?
> I suspect I have to add your PPA to my sources.list, update and upgrade
> but I'm a bit leery about doing it that way as I may get more than just
> this one change and tracking could be harder. Is there a simple way to
> just update the gpm?

Yes. You can either just select gnome-power-manager in synaptic or you
can use the command line and type:

   $ sudo apt-get install gnome-power-manager

Either will just install the updated GPM as long as you've added the PPA
to your sources list.