gdm does not respect gnome power management settings

[John Johansen]

Set gdm as the session manager
When logged in go to system settings -> power -> suspend when inactive/when plugged in to - Don't suspend
Logout, and let the machine idle at gdm, machine will suspend after 30 minutes

This can be real frustrating when trying to remote in to the machine, and it keeps suspending.

One possible solution is replace with lightdm which does not exhibit this behavior.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gdm 3.0.4-0ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 29 01:40:43 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[dino99 (9d9)]

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