Bug 1044651

Summary:	Gnome Power Management Activates Too Early
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Robert McSwain <rmcswain>
Component:	gnome-power-manager	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.5	CC:	cww, rmcswain
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	1044644	Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-08-03 15:28:51 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1044644
Bug Blocks:	1075802, 1172231, 1269194

Description Robert McSwain 2013-12-18 18:29:52 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1044644 +++

Description of problem:
Gnome Power Management Activates Too Early with the following settings:
Gnome -> System -> Preferences -> Power Management ->  Put display to sleep when inactive for: to 30 minutes. Also with the settings of 1 hour as well as set to never.
In both cases the monitor darkens (suspends, not sleeps) after less than 15 minutes.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-power-manager-2.28.3-7.el6_4.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
Gnome -> System -> Preferences -> Power Management ->  Put display to sleep when inactive for: to 30 minutes and observe behavior.

Actual results:
The monitor suspends after 15 minutes.

Expected results:
The monitor sleeps instead of suspends at the specified time

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2014-04-04 15:21:35 UTC

*** Bug 1044644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2014-05-20 09:06:09 UTC

What hardware is this? Is the monitor perhaps blanking on its own? Maybe turning off the "power saving" feature of the panel might help. Thanks.

Comment 4 Robert McSwain 2015-08-26 13:56:32 UTC

I've asked the customer to confirm if he's still having this issue and if so with what version of GNOME and which hardware.