Ubuntu :: 10.04.1 Screensaver, DPMS, And Sleep Not Working?
Mar 10, 2011
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04.1 32-bit on a Dell Optiplex GX280 with Intel P4 3.4GHz, 1GB ram, 40GB hard drive, it's connected to a 17" CRT monitor which was detected automatically. Anyways, I set screensaver to come on after 15 minutes, monitor to shut off after 30 minutes and computer to go to sleep after an hour idle. The screensaver came on and monitor shut off as desired but the computer wouldn't go to sleep. So I manually put it to sleep (clicked "Suspend") and it went down and came back up just fine.I then did a few other things like installed java, flash, vlc player and I noticed that the screensaver won't even come on now. What is going on???Running:
Code:sudo lshwshows under display: Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller. Again the screensaver and DPMS WERE working, but they aren't now. I don't understand why Ubuntu isn't doing what I asked it to do in Preferences. it's very frustrating
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Jul 29, 2010
running 10.04 Netbook edition. I would like my screen to lock after the netbook goes to sleep but NOT after it enters the screensaver. is this possible? i use my laptop to read in the university a lot and to save power tell it to go into black screensaver after a minute of inactivity. if i enable the lock option i have to enter the password each and every time after the black screensaver activates. but if i deactivate this option and then put the netbook into sleep/hibernate mode it doesn't ask for a password (which i would like) is there any way configure separate passwords for these instances or are they firmly linked?
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May 24, 2010
I'm running a fresh 10.04 x86-64 on a thinkpad w500, using the default video driver. The monitor shuts off randomly, sometimes while I'm using it and requires me to trigger sleep mode and waking up to bring back the screen. When it shuts off, everything else seems to be running. (i.e. its not going to sleep) I've turned off screensaver, sleep, hibernation and installed the Caffeine util to no avail.
pm-suspend.log: http://pastebin.org/273444
pm-powersave.log: http://pastebin.org/273445
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Jun 14, 2010
I have recently switched to Ubuntu (10.04) after running my system on Centos for years. This mostly due to much quicker startup times. I have a software that runs as a public presentation software on a public "bigscreen" so my Ubuntu runs like a "kiosk" pc that's always on. When i switched to Ubuntu everything worked lika a charm besides the fact that the screen falls in to "sleep"/"powersave" or something.
I think that i have tried everything to prevent this. I use Gnome and i have set all the powersavings features to off. Ive tried turning acpi off and i also turn dpms off at login. Nothing seems to kill the "screen powersaving" feature. As a desperate act i tried to use a software called Coffeine, this software should prevent powersavings. I added Coffeine to autostart to activate for 48h, I need the screen to atleast stay on for 24h.. Does anyone have an ide what cuses this? Dont really want to go back to Centos now... My system basicly looks like this:
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Jul 25, 2009
Anyone noticing intermittent problems with the screensaver not kicking in or the display not sleeping? This is in gnome under F11.I have the Power Management Preferences set to put the display to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity and gnome screensaver is configured for 5 minutes idle time.On a regular basis, I'll leave my computer come back anda) the screensaver hasn't kicked inorb) the screensaver kicked in, but the power management features didn't kick in to put the display to sleep.It seems to be an intermittent problem and usually it goes away after I restart X, but then at some point it comes back. In the past, I've gotten in the habit of being logged in for weeks/months at a time but I find that I can't go more than a few hours without logging out and back in or else the screen won't go to sleep.
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May 27, 2011
When my laptop wakes up from suspend I often find that my screensaver have not locked my desktop. Does you see the same problem or is it just me?
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Feb 10, 2010
I'm trying to get the f-spot screensaver working under KDE. I found the f-spot-screensaver executable in usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/f-spot-screensaver, and the executable works just fine under KDE when run from the command line. I also found a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/screensavers/f-spot-screensaver.desktop.
I also installed xscreensavers, and they all seem to work just fine, but I can't figure out how to make the f-spot version show up in control panel.
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Jan 17, 2011
Just as the title says, the electricsheep screensaver (v2.7) is not working - not on gnome-screensaver at least.When running electricsheep from a terminal it does work, also the exact same version works fine as a screensaver under Lubuntu.I've tried some solutions provided in other threads on this forum, such as installing the PPA version and letting it run overnight, without success.
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Nov 10, 2010
I just did a new clean install of Ubuntu 10.10 on my PC. I noticed that the screensaver doesn't work at all. Is there a way to start/ reset the screensaver?
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May 19, 2010
There's an OSS screensaver on windows that I love called PixelCity (links:blog post, github). it's pretty cool. and it runs fine on my Ubuntu (Karmic 9.10) with wine.Is there a way I can tell the gnome-screensaver about it so I can use it as one of my screensavers? I'm still fairly new to Gnome and the whole "screensavers as themes" thing is still confusing me.I've found my themesdir and tried to create a .desktop file for it, but obviously I've gotten something wrong as it just doesn't show when I open the screensaver prefs dialog, no error, no message, it's just not there.
Installing the xscreensaver packages added the extra screensavers I was missing, and I'm a pixelcity away from perfection..Of course the perfect solution would be if someone ported the screensaver natively to linux, which shouldn't be too hard as the source is open, it already runs on openGL and tries to confine most windows stuff to a single file. But I don't know C++ or 3D code or win/linux internals so I wouldn't know where to start..
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Mar 15, 2011
whenever I try to hibernate/sleep my computer and I come out of the sleep, the keyboard is not recognized and stops working altogether and requires a reboot. Changing the USB port does nothing either.
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May 15, 2011
I have had a issue with the trackpad not working (cursor does not move, does not click) after I wake up my MacBook Pro 4,1 from sleep. I am pretty sure this is an X issue and not a driver issue because if I log out the trackpad works again. This is also sporadic. Sometimes it occurs, sometimes it does not. Is there some configuration I need to set to fix this?
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Jun 11, 2010
As the title says the option in the SCREENSAVER(Power Management Preferences)Put display to sleep when inactive for is not working. I have selected 2 minutes, and even after 1 hour it will not shutdown the display.
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Dec 23, 2010
After upgrading to Mythbuntu 10.10 from 9.10 (clean install) on my combined front/backend I cannot get monitor (Dell 3007) to switch off from remote, I have been using simple script to DPMS force off for years with no problems, it still works, but some random time later the backlight comes back on. I have tryed the more complex scripts that stop and start the frontend and all of the acpi_osi options. Disabling screensaver has no effect. what causes this, or how to fix? Sysem is Abit IP35e (I suspect this board is the problem)
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I have 2 remote frontends both upgraded OK. I have tryed installing 10.10 on a 'scrap' P4 machine, DPMS off works fine on it. I would try another install and/or another MoBo but its the only TV system in the house now.
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Feb 9, 2016
There's a short version at the bottom.
I just installed jessie with gdm3 and use xfce.
I like my monitor to turn off when I'm not at the computer for more than 10 or 20 minutes or so and it wasn't doing that. I haven't used Linux for years and was used to xorg.conf/x11.conf and xinitrc and such.
So I rediscovered xset is responsible for DPMS settings. xset -q revealed DPMS was off. So I used it and put it in ~/.xinitrc. It didn't work. After some canoodling around I found out about xfce's Session and Startup gui thing. I was using that to run ~/.xinitrc.
When I got to my desktop and did a check with xfce4-terminal by running xset -q it would show DPMS enabled but the values were wrong. 600, 0, 900 to be exact.
After some searching I came across the information that xscreensaver will override DPMS settings as it manages DPMS too. So after more canoodling I found out about xfce's Screensaver preferences dialogue and used that to set my values. The values would immediately be set but the problem is that they are not persistent. If I reboot or log out the values will revert to 600, 0, 900. They will only reset to what I want them to be by running xfce's Screensaver preferences dialogue manually.
man gdm3, info gdm3, grep -r DPMS in /etc/gdm3, grep -r dpms in /etc/gdm3 reveal nothing related to DPMS. I've done some searching and nothing useful.
there is an /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-nogl which has some DPMS settings but the times are too large (2 hours); the only thing that matches is the off setting which is specified there.
xscreensaver -no-splash is present in the output of ps so it is xscreensaver and not gnome-screensaver.
The weird thing is that I re-enabled my ~/.xinitrc in xfce's Session and Startup gui thing and it is being run, but the numbers are getting set wrong after it is run. (I put an echo command after xset dpms 900 1200 1500, and the file is appearing in ~)
Where does 600, 0, 900 come from? Mystified on how to proceed from here. I don't remember enough on how to see what's doing what. Is there some sys thing or proc thing I can monitor to find out what's setting these values?
Short version: my xset dpms values are getting reset to 600, 0, 900 every time I logout or reboot. They revert to 600, 0, 900 every time I get to my desktop. I use gdm3 and xfce. Where are these coming from?
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Mar 3, 2015
I'm using Debian Jessie on amd64. I have this video card:
Code: Select all01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [NVS 310] (rev a1)
I'm using the stock nouveau driver that ships with Jessie, and loads by default. I installed this card during my botched attempt to upgrade from Wheezy. This is a fresh install, and DPMS isn't working right.
I can run "xset dpms force off", and the screens will blank. I even see the "HDMI signal lost" screen of both (identical) monitors. However, before the power LEDs of either monitor go orange (instead of blue) the screens come back on as if I had made mouse or keyboard input. If I've locked the screen with xscreensaver, the screens are blank (I use only the blank hack). I've forgone the use of xscreensaver for now, believing it to be contributing to the problem. If I run "xset dpms force off" now, the screens blank, but the "HDMI signal lost" screen doesn't show, and the screens immediately unblank.
Here's the output of "xset q":
Code: Select allxset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
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It's like something is preventing the screen from going blank, but I don't know what it could be.
I installed the proprietary nvidia driver. Sadly, it does the same thing, so that's one thing I can cross off as the likely culprit.
Ran this command:
Code: Select allxset dpms 0 0 0
So when "xset dpms force off" is called, it powers down the monitor immediately. I will be reverting back to nouveau, and will report whether the problem resurfaces.
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Mar 19, 2010
I have an embedded board with a small UPS. When AC power goes down, I need to turn off all power hungry devices in order to have a clean shutdown. First thing I do, is set DPMS to force powerdown, then go through the usual SIGTERM/SIGKILL/umount sequence. I have an Intel i915 Display adapter connected to an LVDS LCD panel.
Unfortunately, when Xorg dies, Xserver or the VT code turn the LCD panel back on.
I even tried working around it by directly poking the panel enable register in the Display chip, so that X doesn't know about it, but the panel goes back on when the VT comes back.
Is there any "legal" way of keeping the display off?
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May 16, 2011
The following script should make screen blanking work without disabling gnome-power-manager code...
This script can also be called from a panel launcher (with ./<scriptname> if it is in $HOME). It will not disable the power manager even though the process disappears from the system monitor. The "if" condition is necessary because SIGHUP will return an error if the process doesn't exist.
If you want a bash command, add this to $HOME/.bashrc:
# The following cannot be implemented as an alias
# and it cannot be called from a launcher, more's the pity
dark () code...
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Jan 1, 2010
The title pretty much describes the issue. The timespan is sometimes some minutes instead of some seconds. I've tried unplugging every peripherials and disabling the touchpad, killing every non-critical processes, disabling and enabling Compiz, but nothing has helped so far.
I'm running Karmic on an Acer Aspire 8935G-874G100BN laptop with a Radeon graphics chipset.
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Jun 7, 2010
I have recently upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04, and I have the following problem.My computer is set up to start the screensaver and lock the screen after 5 minutes of inactivity and to use a blank screen after 15. Whenever I come back after some moments of inactivity and move the mouse, the screensaver doesn't go away. Instead of having a box whereinput a password, I'm left with a still image of one frame of the screensaver. I can still input the password and press enter to unlock the screen, but it is a bit annoying nevertheless. Moreover this does not happen if the screen is blank: in that case I see the expected box.
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Feb 23, 2010
i have already checked system>preferences>screensaver. activate screensaver after 8 min of idle but i just get a black screen?when i click preview it does show the screensaver, but it doesn't show after 8 min idle
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May 1, 2010
I was trying to add new screensaver to Ubuntu 10.04. I believe i put all files in the right place but the preference selection list is not updated even if i logout/in and restart the computer.The .desktop file is correct as i compared with other existing files.
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Feb 4, 2011
I have an amazing ".mov" file that i'd like to use as a screen saver for Ubuntu, is this possible?
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Feb 18, 2011
How do I set the screensaver in kubuntu 10.10? I've searched the web for help, and everywhere says it's under "desktop" in start | settings, but I can't see an entry for "desktop", only for "desktop settings" which seems to be something completely different (though fun). Pretty much a Linux newbie
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Jun 17, 2011
I have Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit. Kernel: 2.6.38-8-generic AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250u Processor 750GB HD 8GB RAM. Now, the problem is that when I lock my computer(I have to do this because I have brothers and stuff always trying to sneak on), it freezes after a while. Like, I lock my computer before I go to sleep, and I wake up and it's frozen, and I have to reboot to fix it. The problem is that I host 2 servers on it, and I can't turn it off.
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Jul 14, 2011
I have an Xubuntu 10.10 File server / Media centre which I have set up to automatically lock the screen at 1am so the teenagers dont stay up all night watching movie and then being tired for school.My problem is I dont know how to automatically unlock it or how to unlock it through SSH.Usually I just manually unlock it every morning as I walk out the door but sometimes I forget and then can't unlock it from home.Kids come home from school while I'm at work and then cant watch movies or shows.How do I get it to automatically unlock the screensaver / screen lock?How do I unlock it through SSH without using VNC?BTW I cant get VNC working anymore since I upgraded to 10.10 with a fresh install either.
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May 2, 2010
I really liked the Karmic fireworks screensaver, which appears MIA in Lucid. Does anyone know how I could acquire and install this feature?
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May 9, 2010
I tried a lot of methods but cannot work.Like:
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gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled --type＝bool false
gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/ac_sleep_display --type=int 0
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May 19, 2010
my processor usage spikes and it fades epic slow then there is no lag when the screen saver comes up
the screen saver is skyrockets my computer's specs are in my signature
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Sep 8, 2010
I would like to run an antivirus program as the screensaver to maintain a Windows partition that my roommates use. Does anyone already know a good way to do this?
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