Package: gnome-power-manager Version: 2.32.0-2 Severity: normal The power manager settings are ignored until the first input is received, either from the mouse or the keyboard. Other sources of input, such as IR remote input or game controller input don't count. In my case, I have a computer hooked up to my TV and the screen blanks after 20 minutes if I forget to press a key or move the mouse. (which is often) The screen saver is disabled and I set the power manager to never put the display to sleep, which does work once input is received.
I have observed this on my desktop as well (which is what I'm reporting this from), though it isn't as debilitating since the keyboard and mouse are the main forms of input. My HTPC is set to automatically log in, while my desktop shows the login screen. I tried setting the gconf keys in /etc/gdm3/greeter ..gconf-defaults so gdm3 will have the same power settings, in case it was inheriting the settings from gdm3 after logging on, but that didn't to change anything. I was finally able to work around the issue by doing the following: 1. Run update-rc.d gdm3 remove to prevent gdm3 from starting. 2. Add "su - <user> -c startx" to /etc/rc.local to log in and start the X server on startup 3. Remove gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager from the startup applications 4. Add ~/.xinitrc to disable dpms and screen blanking and start the X session I don't by any means think that is a good workaround, and would only recommend it single-user situations like an HTPC. (which are also generally the kinds of configurations that would most suffer from this issue) However, this means that as long as I guarantee that gnome-power-manager never starts, my settings will stick regardless of if input is received or not. One thing to note is mplayer does prevent the display from going to sleep, though VLC doesn't. -- Package-specific info: Distro version: squeeze/sid Kernel version: 2.6.32-5-amd64 g-p-m version: 2.32.0 HAL version: 0.5.14 System manufacturer: missing System version: missing System product: missing AC adapter present: no Battery present: no Laptop panel present: no CPU scaling present: no Battery Information: UPower data: Daemon: daemon-version: 0.9.5 can-suspend: yes can-hibernate yes on-battery: no on-low-battery: no lid-is-closed: no lid-is-present: no GNOME Power Manager Process Information: HAL Process Information: 108 1672 0.0 0.0 44992 5440 ? Ssl Nov07 0:01 /usr/sbin/hald root 1673 0.0 0.0 22172 1372 ? S Nov07 0:00 \_ hald-runner root 1702 0.0 0.0 24288 1308 ? S Nov07 0:01 \_ hald-ad 108 1720 0.0 0.0 26100 1280 ? S Nov07 0:00 \_ hald-ad root 1769 0.0 0.0 24284 1308 ? S Nov07 0:58 \_ hald-ad -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on: ii consolekit 0.4.1-4 framework for defining and trackin ii dbus-x11 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii gconf2 2.28.1-5 GNOME configuration database syste ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcanberra-gtk0 0.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve ii libcanberra0 0.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-5 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.30.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.2-2 library for GNOME Panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-1.1 Library for writing single instanc ii libupower-glib1 0.9.5-5 abstraction for power management - ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library ii notification-daemon 0.5.0-2 daemon to displays passive pop-up ii upower 0.9.5-5 abstraction for power management Versions of packages gnome-power-manager recommends: ii udisks 1.0.1+git20100614-3 abstraction for enumerating block Versions of packages gnome-power-manager suggests: ii policykit-1 0.96-3 framework for managing administrat -- Configuration Files: /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop' -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
