[ale] Power Management & /etc/default

Nolan Voight nolan.voight at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 15:53:53 EST 2012


So far as I know. Been reading through Gnome/Ubuntu/Mint documentation
to see if I'm looking in the wrong places altogether.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> I assumed (bad idea) that you were running X Windows. Are you?
>
> keith
>
> --
>
> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Nolan
>> Voight
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 18:45
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Power Management & /etc/default
>>
>> Thank you, Keith. I restored everything to default, then tried your
>> suggestions, but that didn't do it. Anywhere in the logs that might
>> tell me where this is getting called from?
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > Open a shell and type the following
>> >
>> > xset s off
>> > xset -dpms
>> >
>> >
>> > If you want to make the settings permanent edit the following file:
>> >
>> >   /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>> >
>> > and place the flowing lines before # invoke global X session script
>> >
>> > # turn off screen blanking and monitor energy star features
>> > /usr/bin/xset s off
>> > /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>> >
>> >
>> > keith
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
>> > IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
>> > keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
>> > (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> Nolan
>> >> Voight
>> >> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 13:12
>> >> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> >> Subject: [ale] Power Management & /etc/default
>> >>
>> >> I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint last month, for the usual reason.
>> >> I'm running it on a PC, and am having the dickens of a time trying to
>> >> figure out how to keep it from going into Standby or Suspend long
>> >> enough for me to watch a doggone movie. The dconf Editor doesn't seem
>> >> to pay any mind to the values I've increased in what seemed the likely
>> >> places in org-gnome-settings-daemon-plugins-power. Maybe I should try
>> >> 0 instead of large numbers--would that mean False, or would that throw
>> >> it into suspend immediately?
>> >>
>> >> Reading this page:
>> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement
>> >> makes me wonder if I should try editing /etc/default/acpi-support, but
>> >> reading that file, the lines which would help are in the Legacy
>> >> (deprecated) section. I've called up the man page for pm-hibernate,
>> >> but have no idea where I would control that. Any suggestions?
>> >> Something real obvious I've missed?
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