Bug#428122: Is this really a bug?

[Tony Houghton]

> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 00:13 +0200, Vincent Lönngren wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed something else: contrary to what I wrote in my original
> > report, the screen is actually turned off by g-p-m, but there is a delay
> > of a few minutes where the screen is blanked but on. This confused me. I
> > still think it's kind of weird, but it's not a problem to me since it
> > eventually turns off anyway.

That sounds like normal behaviour. Normally gnome-screensaver blanks the
screen and gnome-power-manager triggers DPMS some minutes later.

> The g-p-m FAQ mentions something about this,
> 
>         My monitor is broken and treats DPMS standby and off states as 
>         'no-signal' which leaves the monitor powered on.
>                 
>         You have to change the dpms suspend mode gnome-power-manager
>         uses.
>         Open gconf-editor, and then change the
>         keys /apps/gnome-power-manager/ac_dpms_sleep_method 
>         and /apps/gnome-power-manager/battery_dpms_sleep_method to 
>         one of the modes that work, e.g. standby, suspend or off.

The keys seem to have changed to
/apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/dpms_method_ac and
/apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/dpms_method_battery.

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