I've been fighting this with Hardy and the references here made me dig a bit more and found this:
$ gconftool-2 -Tg /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_time 30 int This basically tells GPM that "idle" means 30 seconds. So, I did this: $ gconftool-2 -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_time 120 -t int If my calculations are correct, that should increase the delay before the screen dims down to 2 minutes. As for what "activity" means, I have found that moving the mouse and typing equally triggers GPM to bring up full brightness. I think a long term solution to this issue is to put a slider into Power Management Preferences screen to allow this to be customized without tinkering with gconf. I always saw people's iBooks dimming down to save power and I'm glad it is now supported here -- just needs to be fleshed out a bit more. -- Timeout is too short on dimming https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
