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tapia

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Registered: 2013-03-13

Posts: 59

[Solved] Screen not turning off after "X" min ...

For several weeks my computer (Dell XPS 13 2015) using Gnome shell has not been shutting down its screen as it should do, according to what is specified in gnome preferences (after 5 min of unactivity for example). This problem might be related to the installation of powertop, but I am not sure, because even after uninstalling it the issue persists. Any idea of what this might be? Which output would be relevant to show here to fix the problem?
Thanks
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Edit: forget this. It was only a gnome extension, that was causing this. My bad.

Last edited by tapia (2016-02-28 14:40:15)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [Solved] Screen not turning off after "X" min ...

@tapia,

please mention which GNOME extension was causing the problem so that it helps the community.

tapia

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Registered: 2013-03-13

Posts: 59

Re: [Solved] Screen not turning off after "X" min ...

It was the Caffeine extension [1]. Apparently it was always on.

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/517/caffeine/