Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
Hi everyone, I have the problem that my screen switches off after ten minutes. I tried to set sleep-display-battery to different values, but the setting is not respected: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-battery 0 sleep-display-ac doesn't work,

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:05:24AM +0100, Marco wrote: I have the problem that my screen switches off after ten minutes. I tried to set sleep-display-battery to different values, but the setting is not respected: That is 10 minutes of idle time right? Any application which e.g. plays a

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: I have the problem that my screen switches off after ten minutes. I tried to set sleep-display-battery to different values, but the setting is not respected: That is 10 minutes of idle time right? Yes. Any application

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 1 March 2012 09:24, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: Any application which e.g. plays a movie can block the screen from turning off. When I  watch movies in VLC  the screen is still  switched off after ten minutes. Preferences → Advanced  → “Inhibit the power management daemon during  

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Olav Vitters
Readding desktop-devel-list :-( On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:24:38AM +0100, Marco wrote: When I watch movies in VLC the screen is still switched off after ten minutes. Preferences → Advanced → “Inhibit the power management daemon during playback” is activated. Maybe that is related to my

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Frederic Peters
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On 1 March 2012 09:24, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: Any application which e.g. plays a movie can block the screen from turning off. When I  watch movies in VLC  the screen is still  switched off after ten minutes. Preferences → Advanced  → “Inhibit the power

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: Any application which e.g. plays a movie can block the screen from turning off. When I  watch movies in VLC  the screen is still  switched off after ten minutes. Preferences → Advanced  → “Inhibit the power management daemon

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi; On 1 March 2012 10:07, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: adding  a   potentially  damaging   setting  (you   disable  power management -  your display  never turns off  - you  lose battery juice  - you  lose documents,  your backlight  gets progressively worse, your battery  gets

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Ross Burton
On 1 March 2012 10:07, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: I sometimes have a PDF that I want to display without the screen being turned off. That would be View-Presentation in Evince, I believe. Ross ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
I get your point. But the  automatism don't always work. What if I'm working on the  shell and watch the  output of a program.  I have to press a button from  time to time to keep my  screen alive. It would be  so  easy  to  simply  turn  off  the  scrren  blanking  for  the time  

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 10:16 +, Ross Burton wrote: On 1 March 2012 10:07, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: I sometimes have a PDF that I want to display without the screen being turned off. That would be View-Presentation in Evince, I believe. For the case of a PDF, it might be.

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: I have found myself in the same situation often while discussing and/or analyzing different sources of data (charts, tabular data, network graphs, etc.). I am glad to hear that I am not the only one facing this problem. Still the

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Justin Joseph
There is a presentation mode extension in the gnome.extensions which will help you for the time being. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: On 2012-03-01 Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: I have found myself in the same situation often while discussing

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Justin Joseph justin.m...@gmail.com wrote: There is a presentation mode extension in the gnome.extensions which will help you for the time being. Thanks for the tip, but I don't use the gnome shell. Marco ___ desktop-devel-list

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Nick Glynn
Thanks for the tip, but I don't use the gnome shell. Marco So you don't use the Gnome desktop but you're moaning to the development list thereof? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Nick Glynn exos...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tip, but I don't use the gnome shell. Marco So you don't use the Gnome desktop but you're moaning to the development list thereof? I use the gnome desktop. However, I changed the window manager from mutter to

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Javier Jardón
FWIW, this seems to be the relevant bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579430 (see comment #31) -- Javier Jardón Cabezas ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org

Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

2012-03-01 Thread Marco
On 2012-03-01 Javier Jardón jjar...@gnome.org wrote: I think there are two issues mixed up in this discussion. 1) VLC does not support Gnome's way of inhibiting the screensaver That's unfortunate but I can live with that. 2) The setting org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power

GtkGrid indexes / relative position of two widgets

2012-03-01 Thread Lanoxx
Hi, is it somehow possible to get the index of the position which a widget of a GtkGrid has? I have only seen functions which operate relative to a sibling. If I have two widgets A and B and I need to decide if A's current position in the grid is before or behind B and then insert A left or

Re: GtkGrid indexes / relative position of two widgets

2012-03-01 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Lanoxx lan...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, is it somehow possible to get the index of the position which a widget of a GtkGrid has? I have only seen functions which operate relative to a sibling. GtkGrid has child properties for left-attach, top-attach, width and