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

[Michael Biebl]

severity 650086 normal
thanks

On 26.11.2011 13:35, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 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.

What do you have as

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time

If you set that to 600 (secs), does it work as you expect?

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