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Re: Turn Off Screen Saver



On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Paul Nulandorn
<paul.nulandorn@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 18:21 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>> On 06.06.2012 17:21, Paul Nulandorn wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:13 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Paul Nulandorn
>> >> <paul.nulandorn@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >> You don't tell us what display manager you're using, but there's
>> >> probably a "power management" function which is turning the screen off
>> >> after a period of idleness.
>> >
>> > I'm using gnome 2.30.2.
>> >
>> > I checked the power management settings and the screen saver is disabled
>> > there also.
>> >
>>
>> What about "turn off screen after..." minutes etc. ?
>>
>
> OK to be precise:
>
> "Put display to sleep when inactive for:"
>
> is set to
>
> "never".

Are you on an up-to-date testing system, by any chance? I ask because
I've noticed since yesterday that my screen is blanking after about 10
minutes of inactivity even though I have the appropriate settings in
the power manager, which, in my case is the Xfce Power Manager.
Something further under the hood must be broken.

Patrick


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