Thank you for your bug report. The control is to turn wifi on or off,
the subtitle is an hint that turning wifi off save power. The wording is
confusing though, which has been reported upstream as
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/53
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Summary changed:
- gnome-control-center power - 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' soft blocks wifi
device
+ gnome-control-center power - 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' label is confusing
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805025
Title:
gnome-control-center power - 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' label is
confusing
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
The 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' setting defaults to ON.
Toggling 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' to OFF causes the wifi device
to be soft blocked.
BEFORE$ sudo rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
AFTER$ sudo rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
Installed: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
Candidate: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
Version table:
*** 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
Expected behavior: Power saving for wifi will be disabled.
Actual behavior: Wifi is disabled.
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