I'm not sure if this bug has been fixed or not.. but it doesn't affect me anymore, I'm not sure when it disappeared, maybe when 10.10 or 11.04 was released..
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/487863 Title: gnome-power-manager - Power Management Preferences - "Put display to sleep when inactive for:Never" - does not work, display sleeps in few minutes Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager In Power Management Preferences "Put display to sleep when inactive for: Never" does dot work. Display is put to sleep and goes dark after a few minutes. "Put display to sleep when inactive for: 1 hour" does work. Display is put to sleep and goes dark after 1 hour. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 2927c59df4d910c7420633a88fe5f586 CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Tue Nov 24 17:12:13 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: wl Package: gnome-power-manager 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:1776): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1819): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:1811): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/487863/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

