[ale] Power Management & /etc/default
Nolan Voight
nolan.voight at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 21:57:26 EST 2012
Chasing the problem around the web over the past couple of weeks &
noting the infrequency but persistence with which the question comes
up, I suspect that it arises from a combination of hardware & software
which is not universal--otherwise, I wouldn't have had the
problem--but which is common enough to be easy to find in a search. A
recent iteration of Gnome + a specific generation of ATI graphics
card? My best guess.
What's KDE look like these days? Haven't used it since I was running
SUSE seven or so years ago.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> Can't generalize, BUT in KDE,
>
> KDE menu > Applications > Settings > Screensaver > Mode > Disable Screen
> saver AND set Blank After to "0"
>
> Sean
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Monday, January 16, 2012 10:06:25 pm Nolan Voight wrote:
>> Okay, this works, but is not elegant. Came across the xdg-utils while
>> reading, tried:
>> xwininfo -int
>> (to get the Window ID, then)
>> xdg-screensaver suspend [Window ID]
>>
>> Made it through a movie without the screen going black. Too specific,
>> though--close the browser, open it again, different Window ID. Close
>> programs, walk away, desktop blacks out. Anybody know how to
>> generalize this? Window Zero doesn't work:
>> xdg-screensaver suspend 0
>> xdg-screensaver: Window 0 does not exist
>>
>> Nor does the wildcard:
>> xdg-screensaver suspend *
>> xdg-screensaver: Window acpi-support does not exist
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Nolan Voight <nolan.voight at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > 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 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: 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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