The default values in there are like 4 hours, , etc. Yu have to make sure that dpms enable is checked. Mine was not and so it did not do it. In any case, I change my values down and it is now powering off the screen. It has a little inconvience of just powering down at every 510 minutes right now. I am trying to check out why it does this. Per Kustemo wrote:
Hi I already had some values there so this is probably not to make just the monitor go into the powersave mode, think it is for the whole computer......will test it :).... /P
On 1/20/06, Joseph Loo
wrote: I think I found out what the person was talking about gnome in setting the power saving mode. I have not tested it yet but will try in the future.
1. Click on Applications=>System=>Configuration=>Gnome Configuration Editor 2. A new menu will appear. Open the apps by clicking on Apps. This will bring up a whole list of stuff. Scroll down to gnome-screensaver 3. Click on gnaome-screensaver. A bunch of parameters will now appear on the right hand menu. 4. My guess you will want to do the following a. Click on the value dpms_enable and select the check mark b. Double click dpms_off value and type in 60 your time. I put in 60 (desktop) c. Double click dpms_standby value and type your time in. I put in 45. d. Double click dpms_suspend value and type in your time. I put in 30. 5. Close the window. This might work. So far I have not tested it. It may require a reboot, logoff, or a restart of the X11 server. I do not have an idea at this time.
aram v nathan wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:23 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:18 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
But this problem was cause I'm not running KDE, i'm trying to get this to work in GNOME. Here it comes again. ---------------------------------------------------- Hi. When I use the KDE there is a powersave for my laptop monitor (just the monitor) so it goes totally black but I'm not able to find the same option in GNOME (the monitor goes black but not totally as in KDE). Is there some setting I have missed or is there som package I have to install? Regards /Per
Since the fine folks that are creating Gnome consider "less control" to be "less confusing" to the user it probably does not exist. The best thing to do would be to write the developers requesting control over the shutdown of the monitor and then -not- hold your breath waiting for a change. There was a long discussion involving Linus (the linux creator) about why there are so few options for the user to make changes to their gnome environment the the developers said that having to many control options available to the user would be "confusing" to the user. Go figure.
Bill Gates also thought likewise perhaps thats why his OS has been a succcess in no small measure.
Long live KDE.
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