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Bug 568672 - Screensaver "Blank Screen" should use DPMS
Screensaver "Blank Screen" should use DPMS
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-power-manager
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
: 583591 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-01-22 10:45 UTC by Joël Schaerer
Modified: 2020-11-06 20:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Joël Schaerer 2009-01-22 10:45:11 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When "Blank Screen" is selected as the screensaver, the screen should actually turn off using DPMS when the screen saver activates, at least for LCD monitors. This would help laptops, since merely displaying a blank screen doesn't actually save power on an LCD.

This has been reported before on the ubuntu launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/257358), however since this is clearly not specific to ubuntu I thought it should be reported upstream.

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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2009-08-21 02:06:14 UTC 
*** Bug 583591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2010-01-29 01:39:28 UTC 
That is up to the power manager.
Comment 3 Joël Schaerer 2010-03-03 08:32:17 UTC 
Any news? It's been more than a year, and the bug is still marked as "UNCONFIRMED", although I can confirm the bug is very real :)

I understand this may not be top priority, but shouldn't it at least be assigned to someone?
Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2012-03-23 09:41:43 UTC 
This works for me in GNOME 3.2
Comment 5 André Klapper 2020-11-06 20:14:49 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all old bug reports in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you can still reproduce this issue in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-power-manager/-/issues/

Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry it could not be fixed.