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nDray

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Registered: 2007-01-21

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Gnome 3.2 power management

Hi everyone!

I installed gnome 3.2 from unstable, and I notice that now my power management is worst than ever.

The problem is that my graphics card, nvidia nvs 3100m, has some problems with DPMS. I can set the screen off with dpms, It works, but mouse or key activities won't bring the lights back up.
With this last gnome version, closing the laptop lid probably issues dpms commands, so to power the screen again I have to kill X11...

Closing the lid used to work as I wanted, before, letting the laptop (elitebook 8440p) itself handle the screen power.

I have tried settings "NODPMS" on xorg.conf, but had no luck. I also tried to find something in dconf-editor, but I found no specific option for really doing nothing when the laptop lid is closed.
It might be worth noting that my power settings don't show like this post advertised, I just have options on actions after determined time, not lid closing: http://justinstories.wordpress.com/2011 … lid-close/

This is *very* bad for me, gnome is completely unusable this way! Any helps?

Edit: oh, and the options in gnome tweak tool don't work anymore...

Last edited by nDray (2011-09-28 10:15:51)

wonder

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Re: Gnome 3.2 power management

you shouldn't trust that website. that is ubuntu patching the hell out gnome.

for me, i setup the monitor to shutdown after 10 minutes from System Settings->Screen, it wakes up fine every time.

to configure what action to do when lid is closed, you have to use gsettings or dconf-edit.

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action
'blank'

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nDray

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Re: Gnome 3.2 power management

Yeah, that gsetting is handled by the gnome-tweak-tool, and setting it to "interactive" or "nothing" isn't really helping. It used to!

Last edited by nDray (2011-09-28 10:24:44)

nDray

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Registered: 2007-01-21

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Re: Gnome 3.2 power management

Humm, but I have mildly good news! Although the NODPMS option didn't work, "xset -dpms" and then closing the lid does work, so I guess I'll just add that to bash_profile, or something!