On Monday 04 Nov 2002 01:19, Angus Auld wrote: > Peter Watson wrote: > > I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. > > > > The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) > > were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which > > went on for a long period and so I disabled them from > > Configure>KDE>Power Control>Energy. > > > > After succesfully ripping the DVD I tried to re-enable Power Saving > > but no luck, the screen never blanks. A bit of digging showed that > > when trying to re-enable the menu's command "kcmshell energy" puts > > rubbish in file ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc, I have edited this > > to be the same as /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc ie > > ====================================== > > > > [DisplayEnergy] > > displayEnergySaving=true > > displayPowerOff=45 > > displayStandby=15 > > displaySuspend=30 > > > > ===================================== > > > > but still no screen blanking. The other apparent fault is that > > ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is completely blank ie 0kb and I don't > > know what it should contain. > > > > If anyone can give me any pointers onthis problem or post the contents > > of their ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc I would be very grateful. > > > > Regards Pete > > Ardnamurchan Scotland > >########################################################### > > Hi Pete, my ~/.kde/share/config/kcminitrc is 0kb also. > My /usr/share/config/kcmdisplayrc is the same as yours. > However, ~/.kde/share/config/kcmdisplayrc contains only the following: > [X11] > exportKDEColors=false > > My power management seems to be working OK. I'm using KDE 3 on LM 9.0 as > well. > > Hope this helps. > > > --Angus > > How do you destroy a righteous person? Give him or her one follower! > --ancient Cherokee saying (fr. "Earth Medicine" by Jamie Sams) > > *************************************** > *Reg. Linux User #278931* > *************************************** > *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* > ***************************************
Thanks Angus I changed mine to be like yours but still no success. I just splashed out on a 17" LCD monitor and I feel a bit dubious about leaving it powered up all the time. There must be some other problem that I don't know about, I may give gnome a try to see if that works ok Regards Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland
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