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Bug 1141779 - setting idle-delay in org.gnome.desktop.session directly has no affect
Summary: setting idle-delay in org.gnome.desktop.session directly has no affect
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Rui Matos
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-15 12:42 UTC by Oliver Ilian
Modified: 2017-07-03 15:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-09-15 16:21:33 UTC
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Description Oliver Ilian 2014-09-15 12:42:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
setting idle-delay in org.gnome.desktop.session directly via dconf or file in /etc/dconf/db/local.d/ has no affect. It always stays at 5 Minutes in the GUI and the system is locking after 5 minutes also

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-settings-daemon-3.8.6.1-9.el7_0.1.x86_64

How reproducible:
open the Power settings UI and dconf-editor window by window. Look at org.gnome.desktop.session -- idle-delay entry

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change the setting in org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay to 600 (10 minutes)
2. run: dconf update
3. log out and log in again
4. see that the org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay entry is still 600, however the Power setting still says Blank Screen after 5 minutes.
5. Wait for 5 minutes and the screen will lock, instead of 10 minutes

Actual results:
Screen locks after 5 Minutes, instead of 10

Expected results:
Screen should lock after 10 minutes (or what ever time is given in idle-delay)


Additional info:
If you have the UI and dconf-editor running in parallel, chanfge the setting in the UI to another time, and you will see the number in idle-delay changing immediately
Comment 2 Oliver Ilian 2014-09-15 14:33:03 UTC 
additional info:

I am setting the idle-delay value via:

/etc/dconf/db/local.d/01-redhat-event-settings

***
## Configure Power settings for Event notebooks
[org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power]
idle-dim=false
idle-brightness=100
sleep-inactive-ac-timeout=0
sleep-inactive-battery-timeout=0

[org/gnome/desktop/session]
idle-delay=0
***

and run `dconf update` after creating the file

in dconf-editor I can see the value of org/gnome/desktop/session - idle-delay set to "0", which should mean, do not blank the screen. Waiting for 5 Minutes, and it blanks the screen

also disabled selinux via setenforce 0, and run `dconf update` again to make sure it is refreshed. Still the same behavior: Screen blanks after 5 Minutes, when it should not blank.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2014-09-15 15:56:18 UTC 
dconf-editor and dconf do not make any checks on the values read from the dconf database. GSettings does, and all the consumers of those settings use GSettings, not dconf directly.

Running:
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
would have shown that the idle-delay wasn't set to 0, but to the default 300.

The problem is that the dconf database contains an integer, when GSettings (and its schemas) expect an unsigned integer.

Using:
[org/gnome/desktop/session]
idle-delay=uint32 0

Instead fixes the problem (gsettings get... returns the correct value).

Let me know if this corrects the problem.
Comment 4 Oliver Ilian 2014-09-15 16:21:33 UTC 
Thanks Bastien.

Using:
[org/gnome/desktop/session]
idle-delay=uint32 0

works fine for me.

Cheers
Oliver
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