I tried the dconf settings emptythevoid posted above, but the monitors still blank after about 5 or 10 minutes. The other annoying thing is they never shut off, they just go blank. I've found if I've got a video playing with smplayer or something like that, it follows the time limit set in System Settings. So if it's set to power off the monitors after an hour, it'll at least wait that long. It still blanks it in the middle of playing video, though, even with disable screensaver options checked in the video player, it just waits the appropriate amount of time. I think I tried this with movie player and xine as well.
I've got 2 desktop systems both using the nvidia drivers that exhibit this with either the 300 or 310 drivers. Strangely my netbook that uses the same drivers does not seem to have this issue. The screen powers off fine. I should try changing the screen settings options to match the others and see if it starts behaving the same way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1062166 Title: screen goes dark although screensaver is switched off Status in “gnome-screensaver” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: although in system settings the "switch off screen" (Bildschirm abschalten, wenn inaktiv für...) is set to "never" the screen will go dark after a while although not going to standby - its just darkened. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-screensaver 3.6.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Oct 5 12:04:09 2012 GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No GnomeSessionInhibitors: None GsettingsGnomeSession: org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay uint32 180 org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'ubuntu' InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-17 (17 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/1062166/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
