Keyboard backlight

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How to disable or change thinkpad laptop keyboard backlight via kicksecure?

Multimedia keys don't work
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If the feature isn’t built into the firmware, this requires kernel and userland support. Kicksecure is currently missing the userland support but plans to add it. See:

For kernel support, check under /sys/class/leds to see if a keyboard backlight directory appears there. You may be able to write your own stop-gap solution that controls the LEDs using that interface if the kernel supports it.

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ls /sys/class/leds
input0::capslock input0::scrolllock input14::numlock
input0::numlock input14::capslock input14::scrolllock

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None of those look like keyboard backlight interfaces unfortunately. There might be a kernel module that needs to be installed for this. This is unspecific to Kicksecure: