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rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

As the title says, after upgrading to Gnome 2.26, my monitor no longer powers off after my set 10 minutes.  I have fiddled with the power manager settings, but the monitor now just stays on the screensaver forever and won't sleep.  Anyone else?

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

Mine too. Solution (currently) was to use xscreensaver and not gnome-screensaver. No solution has been found that I know of.

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rsambuca

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From: Calgary, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 143

Re: Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

I installed xscreensaver and the monitor doesn't seem to power down.  Do I have to actually uninstall the gnome-screensaver?

Sokac

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Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 14

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Re: Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

I have same problem with gnome-screensaver. You need to kill gnome-screensaver process and start xscreensaver (as daemon) to work correctly (or change xscreensaver to defautl).

dgr48

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Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 15

Re: Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

This problem in Ubuntu 9.04 (beta) does not exist. They use the same version , gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager (2.24) and Archlinux uses gnome-screensaver 2.26 and g-p-m 2.24.
Maybe this is the key to the bug.

Nepherte

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2008-09-09

Posts: 427

Re: Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

It's possible, but one component doesn't necessarily requires another component of the same version. GDM has been on "2.20" for a long time now and it still works. gnome-power-manager 2.26 has just hit the repositories though.

dgr48

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Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 15

Re: Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

I've opened FS#14221 in bugs.archlinux.org.
Even with the upgrade, the issue still occurs.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Monitor no longer powers down after Gnome 2.26 upgrade

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576169

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