Alex: A much better temporary fix is this: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery false gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 0
Then you can revert the changes from the comment you mentioned. The advantage here is that it will not prevent you from manually going to standby. -- 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/865720 Title: [Oneiric] Can't disable automatic standby (suspend-to-ram) on inactivity Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading from Natty to Oneiric, my machine automatically goes into standby (suspend-to-ram) after 30 minutes of inactivity. While it wakes up without problems, this is still undesired behavior when I'm watching a movie, e.g. in VLC. So I tried disabling this in the control center, in the section "power". However, the setting "suspend when inactive for:" was and still is set to "don't suspend", but automatic standby is still happening. I have found bug #860485, but it seems there is another problem here. After reading the comments from that bug, I verified that gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac returns false. However, I noticed that sleep-inactive-battery was set to true and the associated timeout was set to 1800. I set this to false and 0, respectively, and this did indeed disable the unwanted standby. So it seems that even on my desktop machine the setting sleep- inactive-battery was used instead of the correct setting sleep- inactive-ac. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic-pae 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Oct 3 20:54:21 2011 ProcEnviron: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-30 (3 days ago) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/865720/+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