GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 558838
Display sleep timeout not effictive after re-logon
Last modified: 2009-03-04 15:10:53 UTC
Please describe the problem: The 'Put display to sleep' option is not applied after re-logon. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open 'Power Management Preferences' dialog. 2. Change 'Put display to sleep' timeout value. 3. Close the dialog. 4. Logoff and logon to a new GNOME session. Actual results: The timeout is not effective in the new session--the display is put to sleep after the default timeout (of 20 min or so). Expected results: Sleep timeout should be saved properly across the sessions. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: It's very annoying because it happens all the time when you start watching a movie. The timeout is hit after ~20 minutes. >:-( It suffices to open the dialog once and close it for settings to take effect (even w/o touching the timeout values).
Oh, forgot to mention: this is on Debian lenny. This was a late night post... should check BTS now.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504691
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.