How to dim keyboard with AlienFX?

I noticed that we can dim the keyboard with AlienFX by right-clicking it. However, there are only 2 levels of dimness or brightness. Is there anyway to have more levels of brightness? Dell's XPS line has 4 levels of brightness and their Latitude line has 5 levels of keyboard brightness.

I hope Dell engineers consider enhancing this feature if they update AlienFX again.

 

Not that I've found. I've wondered about that function too. The closest I've got it to lower the color hue, so if the keyboard zone is a bright red, you can make it a very deep red to dim it down a bit.

 

That's actually a great idea! I'll make a Night Mode color scheme.

BTW, how reliable is the RAID 0 in your sig?

I'm afraid of going RAID 0 because if something goes wrong, the data is hosed. on both drives.

 

It is possible to change the 'brightness' of each zone. You will need to edit the theme file and make changes to the .xml. Each "Zone" has a color string - you can quickly locate them by doing a search for ACTIONS.

Reference an old post I made here -
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/552982-couple-lighting-questions.html#post7130435

I suggest using notepad++ as an xml editor.

Note: Be sure to 'save as' the theme after each edit and give it a unique name (this way you dont overwrite any existing pre-installed themes). Once saved, 'apply' and view your results. Also, different colors will have different results. Its not perfect but certainly can be used to create a 'dim' effect.

Have fun!

 

I only use the RAID 0 for my storage volume. ALL my files are on there. It works pretty good in tandem with my SSD. Those WD Scorpio Blacks run fast enough in RAID 0. But I back up all my data on the drives (except for the transcoded movies). That way I'm not royally screwed if one of the drives has a heart attack.

 

RAID0 is no more likely to fail that anything else. If you are using one drive and it fails you are in no better shape than with a RAID0 membership. I have been using RAID0 for several years now and across many different drives. I have never had an issue with it.

@BatBoy - thanks for the tip and the link.

 

True, but statistically speaking, with RAID 0 there's double the chance of something going wrong. With one hard drive y'all only have to worry about one drive controller, one drive head stack, one platter assembly and motor. With a RAID there's two of everything, ergo, there's twice the amount of components to go bad. I think that is what scares people away from RAID 0 is that you have twice as many parts in a RAID array that have the potential to fail. And with RAID 0, there's no data redundancy so there's no protection if on of the drives fail. Well, if all y'all back the files up regularly, then there's no danger of losing any data if one of the drives fails. And in all my years of using RAID 0 arrays, I've only seen one fail...and that was after a power outage.

 

Hmm, I dont think you could dim the keyboard lights. I have the Alienware M11x and the software doesnt provide and settings to adjust the lightings.

 

You can dim it, but it's not an infinite adjustment. It's basically dimmed, or not dimmed.

 

You could share the idea on ideastorm.com, it seems pretty useful to me