This should be a very simple thing to fix. And if I knew "C" I would fix it
myself.
but I don't, my knowledge base is in many other computer programming languages
that date all the way back to the 1960's. While I still program computers,
now-a-days they are primarily a tool to be used in solving other problems...
In my opinion, the best long term fix would be to provide a "[ ] other" box
with a way to allow entering the actual idle time desired -- then a user can
set it to what ever their circumstances dictates.
unfortunately, The concept of "keyboard idle" is not necessarily the
best indication of an "unattended terminal". and the futuristic concept
of tracking eyeball movements to see if anybody is actually looking at
the screen, would probably not be acceptable to most humans.
"15 min" of no keyboard/mouse movement is too short a time period, especially
when the screen is being used to display reference material.
"never" is too long, especially when you need to keep user specific
background processes running - or I would simply logoff and log back on
later.
(One would hope that the user selectable "idle time" values are being
translated internally to some form of seconds or minutes, and that they
are not simply used to set a series of "bit switches", thus my
suggestion to provide a text entry box.)
I would also like to suggest that most folks use a computer to solve
real world problems, and that computers exist primarily as a tool to be
used, and not just as just programming exercises
Thank you.
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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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