This is most easily reproducible if you have a laptop, remove / insert the AC lead, and wait some seconds before gnome-power-manager notices, and starts to fade the backlight brightness between its AC and battery presets.
Killing gnome-settings-daemon fixes the issue (or patching it as above). Since you're assigned to this, I'll not take the liberty of resetting the "Fix relesaed" status, but would suggest it might want to go back to "Confirmed"? -- upgrade to 2:1.2.99.2-0ubuntu1 makes session utterly slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307306 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs