Bug#650086: gnome-power-manager: Unconditionally dims display after 10 seconds when on battery

[Michael Biebl]

On 26.11.2011 19:35, Michael Biebl wrote:
> severity 650086 normal
> thanks
> 
> On 26.11.2011 13:35, Petr Baudis wrote:
>> Package: gnome-power-manager
>> Version: 3.2.1-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> GNOME3.2 dims the display brightness unconditionally after ten seconds
>> while on battery power. This makes it extremely annoying to use a
>> notbeook on battery power for less interactive tasks like reading,
>> waiting for BTS to return a list of bugs ;-), etc.
>>
>> In System Settings -> Screen, I have "Reduce brightness" set to
>> 10 minutes.

Just to clarify that, these are two different issues.
The drop down box let's you select when the screen turns off, not when
it is dimmed. It is named "Turn off after", for a reason :-)

There is actually no GUI to set the idle-dim-time.
You can only disable dim-on-idle completely via the checkbox "Dim screen
to save power".

But as already said, I agree that 10 secs is a too agressive default
value, and I think by setting it to dim after 1 min would be a good
compromise and sufficient to address this bug report.



Cheers,
Michael


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