Tom Horsley-3 wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:59:35 +0100 > François Patte wrote: > >> But gdm refuses to apply this. Why. > > All that stuff is controlled by the gnome-settings-daemon started > by user "gdm" who is the user running the gdm login screen. > Somehow (not at all sure how) you need to influence the > settings for user gdm. > > I was able to set the screen DPI this way by copying my own > ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/font_rendering directory (after I set > my own DPI) to ~gdm/.gconf/desktop/gnome then chowning > everything I copied to gdm:gdm. Perhaps the power manager > settings are down in the ~/.gconf directory somewhere as well > and a similar technique might work? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > The machine in question is not Intel Integrated graphics by any chance is it? If so I had this problem also! You will see another thread on this topic where my only solution was to get a new graphics card! Still I would be interested to know if your machine has onboard graphics? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/why-is-gdm-ignoring-dpms-tp22646790p22649168.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines