Hello all, I switched to Gutsy from Windows a couple of months ago and have been having a blast ever since. However, there is this one problem that I've been having ever since the switch and it's pretty annoying. I'd been living with it for a few weeks until I got a new laptop (eee pc), installed Xubuntu on it and started seeing the exact same problem. Here goes:
After exactly 10 minutes of idleness (no KB or mouse activity), the screen will go blank (very irritating when watching movies as players do not seem to be able to disable this, either). This is not a blank screensaver, as I changed the saver to something else and still just get a black screen. In gnome-power-manager (System -> Preferences -> Power Management), all sliders are set to "Never". In gnome-screensaver (System -> Preferences -> Screensaver), the "Regard the computer as idle after" slider is at 40 minutes. Here's what I've tried and failed to do so far - nothing made any difference at all: * Disable DPMS in xorg.conf * Remove gnome-screensaver * Install xscreensaver instead * Remove gnome-power-management (all per [1]) Anyone have any ideas what would be causing the screen to blank, and how I can stop it? It seems counterintuitive that all of the applets to manage this are being ignored. Iain [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582578 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
