Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 150351
Xscreensaver suspending or turning of screen by default
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:01 EST
Description of problem: At the computer lab, where the computers are "never" turned off - i can see that gdm turns of the displays after a period of inactivity. So the CRT screens are never on over a holyday etc. But if sombody (such as myself) has logged in and then left the computer (overnight, overholyday etc...) - i can see that the display is "glowing" black in the dark before i turn on the lights. And my laptops LCD never really turns of. The i found the setting in the xscreensaver configuration. The one i presumed was switched on. The one "use powersaving functions". Turn that off, and my laptop is OK. But am i going to tell all my users / hacking sine config file in order to do that? It should be the default behavior. And it seems to be considered safe to do - as gdm does it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
[Mass switching of bugs filed against FC4T3 to fc4test3 from test3]
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I'm not completely shure, but it seems like this is generally handeled by gnome power manager now, and on my laptop (running FC6) it is set to put the display "in resting mode" after 40 minutes when running on grid power (i think i have upp'ed this one) and 15 minutes when running on batteries. Btw. blanking of display when closing lid now works out-of-the-box (actually it suspends (a bit unsafe?!?), but this is trivialy set to blanking of screen instead, which is quite nicer when you just want to hand over the machine to somebody or pick it up and walk five meters...) So i think this is closable anyway, as xscreensaver isn't the standard screensaver anymore, and the new system does it rigth.
(setting to "worksforme" as i don't know what version it happened in, and it really was the change to another subsystem that fixed it. Please change resolution if this is wrong.)