I finally was able to prevent the screen to become black after inactivity by running in a terminal: sudo xset s off
I have no idea what that is (just copied and pasted it from some askubuntu answer) and it's absolutely insane that you have to write a command from a terminal in order to prevent the screen to turn black. The very fact there are tons of questions in forums about how to complelety turn off screensaver in Ubuntu means there's something badly wrong with it. ALL system settings should be found under "System Settings", and screen saving options should be easily and readily available under "Power". By the way, I notice the bug has been assigned to the package "gnome- control-center". I guess that is what shows up in dash as "System Settings", right? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244366 Title: no easy way to disable screensaver on 12.04 without installing additional tools To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1244366/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
