Screen dimming behavior fails to recognize inactivity

Bug #392956 reported by Dario Bertini
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

with "dim the screen when inactive" if i leave the pc alone for a while, it is recognized as inactive, and the screen is dimmed...

then if i move the mouse, the pc is again active, and the brightness is reset to its last value... thus working fine...

but if i leave the mouse pointer on a menu, like: applications menu in ubuntu, file menu in whatever gnome program, a contextual menu....

after a while the pc is feeled as inactive and the screen dimmed....

but if i move the mouse inside the menu:

from applications->games.->nexuiz to applications->games->chess to applications->internet->firefox to system->administration....

or from file->new to file->open... or from one voice in the contextual menu to another...

the pc isn't sensed as active, and is kept dimmed indefinitely...
until i click somewhere, or exit briefly the menu...

ProblemType: Bug
ACAdapter: Present
Architecture: amd64
Battery: Present
CPUScaling: Present
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
LaptopPanel: Not Present
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.24.2-2ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64

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Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote :
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Scott Howard (showard314) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Jaunty Jackalope. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote :

do you mean i should triage it on the development livecd of Karmic Koala?

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Scott Howard (showard314) wrote : Re: [Bug 392956] Re: Screen dimming behavior fails to recognize inactivity

Yes, sorry about that! The autoresponse is still set to Jaunty. Since
the upstream developers are working on version 2.27+ (karmic), and
Ubuntu generally would only fix security flaws in stable releases
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates), the best way to get
this fixed would be to triage it in Karmic, file the upstream report
for the Karmic version of GPM, and get the fix into the next release
of Ubuntu. This is especially true since HAL is being deprecated in
favor of DeviceKit-power in Karmic.

Thanks in advance!

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Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote :

i'm sorry but due to an hardware bug i'm unable to easily load a karmic live environment...

i tried with another computer, but being it a desktop, gpm doesn't show any dim-screen option

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Hi Dario, this should be reproducible with the live environment of the development release Lucid Lynx. Would you be able to test that version? You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

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Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote :

Sorry for the late response (being this a bug rather tedious to triage i've always procrastinated it)...

however i'm unable to confirm or refute the presence of this bug:

my laptop has a strange bug with the lucid alpha2: the mouse pointer is forced to stay in the center of the screen, by constantly being randomly moved (even if the trackpad isn't touched )

as already said, trying it on a desktop doesn't help (and besides that i've even some other problem with dimming on my current karmic install)

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Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote :

i asked another one on #ubuntu-bug to triage this very bug: it seems that in lucid the dimming behaviour is back to normal

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xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thanks for updating us Dario. Closing bug report. Good luck and feel free to report anything else you find. :)

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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