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degmic71

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Registered: 2009-02-03

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Weird screensaver behavior

Even though I have screensaver set for 30 min, and theres no "idle" or "dim" settings in power management as this is a desktop, but every 5 or so min, my desktop will dim and go to the screensaver.

Its driving me nuts

IDEAS?

THANKS!

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

xset -s off?

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degmic71

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

what is that , a command in terminal or what

bernarcher

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Registered: 2009-02-17

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

what is that , a command in terminal or what

Its a CLI (command line, i.e. terminal) command. About what is does have a look at "man xset" (in a terminal).

BTW. What kind of screensaver do you refer to? There are various, depending on the Desktop you are using.

Last edited by bernarcher (2009-04-13 20:19:51)

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degmic71

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

gnome screensaver, for some reason "xset -s off" pulls up the quick help as if it doesnt recognize it.

bernarcher

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

There were several reports concerning issues with the current gnome screensaver.
I recommend switching to xscreensaver. The procedure to accomplish this is described in the xscreensaver manual ("man xscreensaver").

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putte_xvi

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

gnome screensaver, for some reason "xset -s off" pulls up the quick help as if it doesnt recognize it.

Try

xset s off

instead (no dash).

rson451

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

Doh.  My bad.  That's correct, no dash.

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degmic71

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

Yea it has happened since the 2.26.29 kernel update along with the new version of gnome

degmic71

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

Still happening, its like the OS doesnt care I have it set in screensaver it just goes to screensaver every 5 or so minutes

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mrunion

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Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

In gconf, change the time here:

desktop -> gnome -> session -> idle_delay

It's set to 5, change it to whatever you want. I still haven;t got power save mode working, though.

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Nepherte

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Registered: 2008-09-09

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

Updating gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager to the svn version solves the issues I had with both. In your case updating gnome-screensaver should do the trick.

kalpik

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

^^ How did you install gnome-power-manager from svn?

Nepherte

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Re: Weird screensaver behavior

This is the pkgbuild I used:

# $Id: PKGBUILD 35458 2009-04-13 18:00:27Z jgc $
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>

pkgname=gnome-power-manager
pkgver=3398
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Session daemon that makes it easy to manage your laptop or desktop system."
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-power-manager/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('libnotify>=0.4.5' 'libunique>=1.0.8' 'libcanberra>=0.11' 'policykit-gnome>=0.9.2' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'devicekit-power' 'libglade>=2.6.4' 'gnome-keyring>=2.26.1')
makedepends=('gettext' 'intltool' 'pkgconfig' 'gnome-doc-utils>=0.16.0' 'gnome-panel>=2.26.0' 'subversion')
optdepends=('gnome-panel')
options=(!emptydirs)
install=gnome-power-manager.install
groups=(gnome-extra)
source=()
md5sums=()

_svnmod=gnome-power-manager
_svntrunk=http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-power-manager/trunk

build() {
  cd $srcdir
  if [ -d $_svnmod/.svn ]; then
    cd $_svnmod
    svn up 
  else
    svn co $_svntrunk --config-dir . $_svnmod
  fi
  msg "SVN checkout done or server timeout"

  cp -r $_svnmod $_svnmod-build
  cd $_svnmod-build

  msg "Building the package..."

  export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -Wl,--as-needed"
  ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
              --localstatedir=/var \
          --libexecdir=/usr/lib/gnome-power-manager \
          --enable-policykit \
          --with-dpms-ext \
              --disable-scrollkeeper \
              --with-dbus-services=/usr/share/dbus-1/services \
              --enable-applets || return 1
  make || return 1
  make GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL=1 DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install || return 1

  install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gconf/schemas"
  gconf-merge-schema "${pkgdir}/usr/share/gconf/schemas/${pkgname}.schemas" --domain gnome-power-manager ${pkgdir}/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas || return 1
  rm -f ${pkgdir}/etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas

  msg "Cleaning build files..."
  rm -rf $srcdir/$_svnmod-build
}

It's exactly the same as the original pkgbuild except that it uses svn. Don't forget to grab the gnome-power-manager.install file as well.