From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 Epiphany/1.8.0 Description of problem: After installing "gnome-screensaver", display power management by "xscreensaver" is not available anymore. This is what one would expect. The bad thing is that neither "gnome-screensaver" nor "gnome-power-manager" offer an alternative means of controlling this feature. Even worse, "gnome-screensaver" disables DPMS. After typing "xset dpms 600 900 1200", "xset -q" correctly reports: "DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600 Suspend: 900 Off: 1200 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On". After executing "gnome-screensaver-preferences", one obtains: "DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600 Suspend: 900 Off: 1200 DPMS is Disabled". There is no intuitive way of reenabling DPMS. This possibility seems to be missing from both "gnome-screensaver" and "gnome-power-manager". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-screensaver-0.0.13-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable DPMS, e.g. by typing "xset dpms 600 900 1200". 2. Check that DPMS is enabled by means of "xset -q". 3. Execute "gnome-screensaver-preferences". 4. Check if DPMS is enabled by means of "xset -q". 5. Verify that display really does not switch to stand-by mode. Actual Results: DPMS should be enabled. Expected Results: DPMS is disabled. Additional info: This behaviour occurs regardless of "gnome-power-manager" is installed or not. If it is installed, at least the three time values are preserved, otherwise thy are also altered. There is an entry in ".gconf/apps/.. ../gnome-screensaver/%gconf.xml": <entry name="dpms_suspend" mtime="1127925270" type="int" value="60"> Is this meant do suspend (deactivate?) DPMS?
Ok, ok - "gconf-editor" is your friend. DPMS is actually not checkmarked. But this is easily done here. The same holds for "stand-by", "suspend" and "off" delays. The content of "%gconf.xml" now reads: <?xml version="1.0"?> <gconf> <entry name="dpms_standby" mtime="1127929052" type="int" value="10"> </entry> <entry name="dpms_off" mtime="1127929046" type="int" value="20"> </entry> <entry name="dpms_enabled" mtime="1127929026" type="bool" value="true"> </entry> <entry name="dpms_suspend" mtime="1127929060" type="int" value="15"> </entry> </gconf> which makes a lot more sense to me. It would be nice, of course, to be able to change these settings directly in the preferences panel.
Unfortunately, "gnome-screensaver" does not retain the settings chosen by means of "gconf-editor". The value of "dpms_suspend" in "%gconf.xml" is always reset to 60 after some time. Still, even after logging out and in again, "xset -q" reports the correct values. However, after rebooting the machine, "xset -q" now reports: "DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On". Very strange, because these value do not at all correspond to the values shown by "gconf-editor".
As of "gnome-screensaver-0.0.16-1", "DPMS" is still disabled, albeit "gconf-editor" having "dpms_enabled" checkmarked. "xset -q" reports: "DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400 DPMS is Disabled" The values are correct, but "DPMS" itself is disabled.
Still not functional in "gnome-screensaver-0.0.18-2".
Still not functional in "gnome-screensaver-0.0.20-1". Btw, the menu icon has not been adapted to the Bluecurve theme either.
"DPMS" is still not working in "gnome-screensaver-0.0.22-1" despite setting all relevant parameters through "gconf-editor" accordingly. After the removal of "xscreensaver" from "rawhide", no working screensaver for the "GNOME" desktop is left over.
"DPMS" is still not working in "gnome-screensaver-0.0.22-3".
"DPMS" is still not working in "gnome-screensaver-0.0.23-3". Moreover, when I set "suspend" to 10 min by means of "gconf-editor" it gets reset to 60 min automatically.
It is possible to set "dpms_suspend" by means of "gnome-power-manager". Changes applied by means of the latter instead of "gconf-editor" are saved correctly and the display actually goes to power saving mode after a while. "gnome-power-manager" should be definitely be required by "gnome-screensaver" when installing it.
There exists a corresponding upstream "GNOME" bug report at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324419
This can probably be closed since gnome-screensaver doesn't handle DPMS in 2.14.