Eugene Crosser: > if you do assign some settings in the command line or from the display-setup > script, "something" resets them back shortly afterwards.
That would be g-s-d's power plugin. See gpm-common.c, disable_builtin_screensaver() and gsd_power_enable_screensaver_watchdog(). g-s-d's power plugin disables the DPMS timeouts because it takes over the job of doing DPMS in response to the screensaver going active (as indicated over d-bus at org.gnome.ScreenSaver). However, unity-greeter does not launch gnome- screensaver, so there is no one to indicate the screensaver is active over d-bus, so g-s-d never powers off the display. At this point, ISTM that the right solution is for unity-greeter to launch gnome-screensaver (with locking turned off so that it doesn't prompt for lightdm's password). However, there must be a reason that it doesn't. And that is why I am investigating the details of 13.04's solution. So that I don't end up coding the wrong solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245474 Title: [regression] on login screen, monitor stays on forever To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1245474/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
