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ctown.myth

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Registered: 2010-02-10

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[SOLVED] Locking Gnome session does not turn off display

What the title says. The session successfully locks, however my monitor stays on, and blank. I have tested with no applications running so it's not a rogue application capturing the display.

xset dpms force off

Successfully turns off display, so there's nothing wrong there either.

My Google-fu isn't the best, but any searches I do only give me results to lock screen but keep the display on, which is not what I want to do.

Thanks!

Last edited by ctown.myth (2018-06-27 22:07:18)

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Locking Gnome session does not turn off display

Did you configure a monitor turn off timeout in GNOME settings? After successfully configuring it there you might have to explicitly copy relevant config for GDM https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … ME_3.28.29

ctown.myth

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Registered: 2010-02-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Locking Gnome session does not turn off display

Sorry, I didn't get time over the weekend to check on this thread. I did manage to do something by disabling early KMS. I had the i915 module set to load early in mkinitcpio.conf. Removing that did fix the problem for a single power cycle, however things started to get buggy again.

I have reset the dconf values to their default state, so both gdm and my session should be the same. I'll report back if that solves the issue.

Thanks!

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ctown.myth

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Re: [SOLVED] Locking Gnome session does not turn off display

So either what you suggested, or disabling early KMS, seems to have solve the problem I had. I will mark this solved, but I have my doubts. Thanks, though!

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