powersave monitor [solved]

cipherus · Apprentice Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 174

gnome-power-manager 2.20.2

I have it set to put display to sleep after 11 minutes inactivity. It works the first time, and then never again until reboot. Any ideas?

andreas_st · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

Do you use any movie players like mplayer? I don't know gnome-power-manager and I only use the built in screen blanking of X. I noticed that mplayer turns off the screen saver (which makes sense of course because when watching movies you usually don't use keyboard and mouse) and if mplayer is not shut down cleanly the screen saver doesn't get activated again.

cipherus · Apprentice Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 174

I have that feature enabled in VLC player only (and it works). But even if I do not use VLC player even once since boot, the screen will only sleep the first time still.

StarDragon · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 390 Location: tEXas

Check your xorg.conf file. I have something like this on mine:

cipherus · Apprentice Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 174

I added -Option "BlankTime" "5"- to my xorg.conf and restarted to see. This time the screen didn't power down even once. Bah. Maybe I have more than one power management service running and they are conflicting?

tabascoz · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject:

Hi,

i used to have a similar problem with laptop-mode , so i disabled an then it works like expected.

cipherus · Apprentice Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 174

hahaaaa nice. unmerged laptop-mode-tools and the screen has already powered off twice. i never even run in battery mode anyway. thanks a bunch bro.