Public bug reported:
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
In the POWER settings for blanking the display, there used to be several
options that allowed selecting a time interval of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4
hours, etc.
Under Ubuntu 18.04.2 there are only 9 selectable time values:
i.e. 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 4 min, 5 min, 8 min, 10 min, 12 min, 15 minutes, and
never.
This might be fine for a portable laptop running on batteries, but is
not acceptable for a desktop system.
The never option is not good, because then the monitor NEVER goes dark.
My preferred time is to set this to 1-hour because of the length of conference
calls.
It is a real nuisance to have the screen blank on you while you are reading
information displayed on the screen to a multi-person conference call...
...Especially if you lock your screen, requiring you to log back on.
I suggest adding some of the time values back to the pull down list, or
possibly adding a "other" fill-in value box where the user can specify
in minutes when he wants the screen to blank when idle.
I consider this to be a bug, and not a feature enhancement, because I
used to be able to say "1 hour".
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1839544
Title:
power setting "display off" maximum is 15 minutes, used to have
several hour increment values
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
In the POWER settings for blanking the display, there used to be
several options that allowed selecting a time interval of 1 hour, 2
hours, 4 hours, etc.
Under Ubuntu 18.04.2 there are only 9 selectable time values:
i.e. 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 4 min, 5 min, 8 min, 10 min, 12 min, 15 minutes,
and never.
This might be fine for a portable laptop running on batteries, but is
not acceptable for a desktop system.
The never option is not good, because then the monitor NEVER goes
dark.
My preferred time is to set this to 1-hour because of the length of
conference calls.
It is a real nuisance to have the screen blank on you while you are reading
information displayed on the screen to a multi-person conference call...
...Especially if you lock your screen, requiring you to log back on.
I suggest adding some of the time values back to the pull down list,
or possibly adding a "other" fill-in value box where the user can
specify in minutes when he wants the screen to blank when idle.
I consider this to be a bug, and not a feature enhancement, because I
used to be able to say "1 hour".
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