Bug#650086: gnome-power-manager: Unconditionally dims display after 10 seconds when on battery

[Petr Baudis]

Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 3.2.1-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

GNOME3.2 dims the display brightness unconditionally after ten seconds
while on battery power. This makes it extremely annoying to use a
notbeook on battery power for less interactive tasks like reading,
waiting for BTS to return a list of bugs ;-), etc.

In System Settings -> Screen, I have "Reduce brightness" set to
10 minutes.

I have found that SIGSTOP'ing gnome-settings-daemon stops the dimming.
After SIGCONT'ing it, the screen is immediately dimmed (and then
undimmed right away because of activity, so it just flickers slightly)
and then starts auto-dimming again.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  consolekit                                   0.4.5-1   
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.4.16-1  
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.7.5-3   
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.2.2-1   
ii  libc6                                        2.13-21   
ii  libcairo2                                    1.10.2-6.1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.30.2-4  
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.2.2-2   
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.29.4-2  
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.14-3  
ii  notification-daemon                          0.7.3-1   
ii  upower                                       0.9.14-3  

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager suggests:
ii  policykit-1  0.102-1

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