I think Jarno and Jamie are misunderstanding each other: > Could the "Disable Screen Saver" mode be changed to not change DPMS settings, when not locked?
I see no reason why selecting "Disable Screen Saver" should prevent kicking in DPMS at all as Jamie stated in comment #18 this is more or less a bug. With Jamies claim that XScreenSaver needs to control DPMS and Jarno's claim that "Disable Screen Saver" also disables XScreenSaver's DPMS even if enabled in the "Advanced" tab of xscreensaver-demo I think you guys are talking about 2 different things while thinking to talk about the same thing making the confusion just perfect. Correct me if I'm wrong with this conclusion. Then we have another issue claimed by Jarno that xscreensaver-demo does not take care and don't update it's values/overwriting with old values if the DPMS settings were changed by other means. Not sure if this is due to XScreenSaver being in charge of DPMS but maybe this should be handled in another ticket (so Jarno you could create another one and cc Jamie there). Also we have another feature request by me and Jarno how DPMS should be handled in special cases for example if the screen is locked (if it should ignore the users time settings or not etc.). This is something that should be handled by another ticket too but unfortunately since the actual bug why we are here does prevent to utilize XScreenSaver's DPMS at all more or less for some unknown reason makes it impossible to test how DPMS actually works to check if there is a feature request required or not. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xscreensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924278 Title: xscreensaver doesn't enable DPMS Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 dev with xscreensaver 5.15-2ubuntu1. The configuration menu xscreensaver-demo provides under the register Advanced the option "Power Management Enable". But this option doesn't enable DPMS (xset -q says "DPMS is Disabled") so the screen can never go in the standby mode. The only way to get it work is to call xset +dpms. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xscreensaver/+bug/924278/+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
