I put my solution here, works on lenovo thinkpad t490s, just in case (for me no need to pression Fn key):
sudo pacman -S xorg-xbacklight
then added the following to my config file
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec xbacklight -inc 10
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec xbacklight -dec 10
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