I got around this dpms-is-always-disabled nuisance in Xubuntu 16.04 by calling a bash script in ~/.config/autostart/<something>.desktop. The script sleeps for 10 seconds and *then* calls xset in such a way as to enable dpms. The 10-second delay is evidently long enough for the startup of the X session to be completed, along with the disablement of dpms that appears to happen during session startup but, alas, after the contents of the autostart have been processed.
I had earlier tried uninstalling light-locker, BTW, but it didn't help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xscreensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924278 Title: xscreensaver doesn't enable DPMS Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 dev with xscreensaver 5.15-2ubuntu1. The configuration menu xscreensaver-demo provides under the register Advanced the option "Power Management Enable". But this option doesn't enable DPMS (xset -q says "DPMS is Disabled") so the screen can never go in the standby mode. The only way to get it work is to call xset +dpms. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xscreensaver/+bug/924278/+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
