Running latest 13.10 daily. This appears to be a very simple bug in gnome-settings-center where the "Never" option is plain broken.
The behavior is easy to verify by using dconf-editor. Setting the"Turn screen off when inactive for:" variable to any of the other options updates a variable called "idle-delay" in gnome::desktop::session. Selecting 10 minutes, for example, sets the value to 600. An hour to 3600. Selecting "Never" doesn't change the variable. Manually changing the "idle-delay" value to 0 results in the expected "Never" behavior. Presumably, this is what the "Never" option should do, although disabling the "gnome::desktop::screensaver::idle-activation-enabled" bool would accomplish the same thing. Related, gnome-settings-center doesn't correctly check the idle-delay value and simply sets the combobox to Never when the Brightness & Lock screen is entered. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1125011 Title: screen save still active after being disabled Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On a remote machine, no keyboard or mouse connected. Set up to auto login and start a browser in kiosk mode as a monitoring dash board for our office. The only way to enable this to run for the whole day is to connect a keyboard and break out of the screen save when it first runs. After that it will not go into the screen saver for the rest of the day. all settings > brightness & lock > Turn screen off when inactive for: "never" lock : "off" all settings > power > suspend when inactive for : "don't suspend " I have tried using different values for like 1 hour all settings > brightness & lock > Turn screen off when inactive for: "1 hour" After 10 minutes monitor goes blank, as if "Turn screen off when inactive: 10 min" is set. I have tried xset -dpms xset s off current xset after clean boot xset -q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 XKB indicators: 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 33 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffefffedffff 9fffffffffffffff fff7ffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 7/2 threshold: 1 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215 Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Disabled I end up issue the following command remotely to get the monitor back on. Which will only work for 10 minutes till it blacks out again. sudo service lightdm restart ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35~precise1-generic 3.5.7.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Feb 14 11:20:14 2013 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3.2 deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5 indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1125011/+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
