On Friday 19 of February 2016 02:43:50 Pisini, John wrote: > OK so I don't know what tdekbdledsync is for but that was definitely the > problem. I will write a script to kill that then turn on the back light > thanks. I will also keep an eye out for any downsides to killing that > process. > > Thanks all. tdekbdledsync has the task to synchronize the LED status between the Xserver and the keyboard. Yes, it is true that the process runs automatically and is not a configuration option to prevent it. Instead of killing the process you can try (on Debian and Ubuntu) blocking: dpkg-divert --local --rename /opt/trinity/bin/tdekbdledsync ln -s /bin/true /opt/trinity/bin/tdekbdledsync -- Sl�vek