On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 18:10 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-26 at 23:48 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 00:12 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:02 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:45 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote: > > > > > I noticed that the backlight on my laptop will turn off in 20 min of > > > > > inactivity. How do I change this to 10 min? I fiddled with > > > > > gnome-power-manager but didn't help. Is this an X setting? > > > > > > > > > > -Louis > > > > > > > > It's part of xscreensaver, if that's installed. Don't know about > > > > gnome-screensaver (sp?). > > > > -- > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > > TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson georgeanelson com> > > > > ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > > > > > > gnome-screensaver has nothing for dpms, not even in gconf. xscreensaver > > > is not installed. Would it be hard coded in X? > > > > > > -Louis > > > > You can adjust it in xorg.conf or with xset(1). The option lines > > below do the magic. For CRT monitors I like to stagger the times a > > bit to minimize thermal cycling damage. blank/standby/suspend/off get > > set to 10/11/12/13 minutes. For laptop LCD's it hardly matters. I > > just turn the sucker off in one go and with a shorter timeout. > > > > >From my fc5 xorg.conf file: > > > > Section "ServerLayout" > > # Identifier "Default Layout" > > Identifier "ancho, ATI Radeon-200M,builtin WXGA LCD" > > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > > InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer" > > InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore" > > > > # added these next 4 -wsr > > # LCD monitors seem to only have two modes, on/off > > # don't bother going through all the intermediate modes. > > Option "blank time" "5" # 5 minutes > > Option "standby time" "0" # disable > > Option "suspend time" "0" # disable > > Option "off time" "5" # same as blank time. > > EndSection > > > > -wolfgang > > I'm on fc6 and the xorg.conf lines didn't work. the manpage said to > put these under "ServerFlags" which didn't work either. The xset > command works but I'm looking for something more permanent. > > Seems gnome-power-manager does nothing at all. > > -Louis Found out gnome-power-manager sets dpms. Why doesn't it allow anything below 11 minute? -Louis
