Confirmed on 14.10 Gnome Classic. "Brightness & Lock" does not change DPMS settings and monitor does not go to standby. When i set dpms manually with "xset dpms 300 0 0" the settings are reset to 0 after suspend/wakeup.
$ xset -q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 XKB indicators: 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 33 Standby: 0 Suspend: auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffefffedffff 9fffffffffffffff fff7ffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 8/1 threshold: 3 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 600 cycle: 600 Colors: default colormap: 0x22 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,built-ins DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On My workaround for now is to change the DPMS setting using "xset" on startup and wakeup. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377847 Title: unity screen saver no longer blanks nor locks automatically Status in gnome-desktop3 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-desktop3 source package in Utopic: Triaged Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Utopic: Fix Released Bug description: After updating over the weekend the screen saver is no longer blanking or locking. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: unity 7.3.1+14.10.20140915-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-20.27-generic 3.16.3 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Oct 6 09:44:32 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-20 (472 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130618) SourcePackage: unity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2013-11-10 (329 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/+bug/1377847/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp