Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 478387
Unable to suspend/sleep screen during GDM login screen
Last modified: 2015-01-14 18:22:15 EST
Description of problem: The newer version of GDM now uses the gnome-power-manager it seems. The gnome-power-manager resets all X DPMS settings to 0 (effectively disabling suspend/standby/off functionality) and manages it on it's own. The default is no sleep. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.24.0-12.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot to gdm login screen with a hardware configuration that is capable of sleeping. 2. Wait some amount of time Actual results: Screen does not suspend/sleep or turn off. Expected results: Screen should suspend/sleep or turn off. Additional info: I haven't tried this yet, but will when I get a chance, but I'm pretty sure that if I run gconf-editor as the gdm user and add the proper power management settings that I can probably get it to sleep. However, that's a little ugly.
FWIW I am experiencing the same issue, when the I logout and leave my computer at the login screen, the screensaver comes on, then the screen blanks but the LCD monitor never goes into standby. If I just lock my screen as a user, everything works as it should eg. screen saver, blank screen and LCD monitor goes into standby.
I'm having the same issue on F10. Have been completely unable to find out any way to get this fixed.
Per Christopher Beland (beland@alum.mit.edu), this looks like a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484478 There's a work-around there, but not a real fix.
IMO, the main problem here is, there is no reason why the gnome-power-manager should be overriding the default X server's suspend/sleep/off times. I'm actually getting quite annoyed at Gnome's insistence on doing everything it's own way and ignoring all of the other standard ways of doing this that have existed for so long now. The gnome-power-manager should be defaulting to the values that the X server has configured instead of resetting them all to 0, and expecting someone to change them via the gnome configuration.
FWIW, this should be fixed in rawhide/f11.
That's great news. Thanks for the heads up.
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Has anyone verified that this is fixed in a clean f11 install?
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