Tapping Home Screen And Manila 2.5

[huntnyc]

This will be strange I know but here goes - even if I wanted to try a Manila 2.5 custom rom, how do I tap the home screen to bring full backlight back when it is dimmed without tapping some type of shortcut that will take mw somewhere I may not want to go? This is no problem in 2.1 because the screen has plenty of space to tap without hitting any shortcuts. My vision is very poor so I may be missing something so obvious and thank you.

Gary