Bug#522899: gnome-screensaver: Fails to activate when on battery

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 19:45 +1000, Samson Wong wrote:
> Gnome screensaver fails to activate when on battery, works fine when
> on power. Instead of the chosen screensaver (e.g. popsquares)
> activating, 
> it would simply blank screen (screen/blacklight is still on - just a
> blank screen). It would still ask for a password, if you had set that
> option though.
> 
> This occurs whether the screensaver occurs naturally or when you use
> gnome screensaver to lock scteen.
> 
> When this happens, gnome power manager events (e.g. autosuspend) also
> do not happen.
> 
> Gnome screensaver will work as normal, if after being on battery, I
> kill it and start it again.
> 
> I am currently using fluxbox, with gnome-screensaver (and gnome power
> manager, I only have those two installed) put into the startup file, 
> so it would autostart on login. I don't know whether this issue occurs
> in a standard debian gnome environment, (which has other things
> installed) 
> might be a relevant factor. 

Hi,

This is actually a feature in gnome-power-manager:

        - Now we control GNOME Screensaver so that we don't use
        screensavers on battery but just blank the screen.

Depending on your hardware, screensavers can be quite resource hungry,
and draining the battery would be bad.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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