Comment 18 for bug 1026411

Is the fix working for you in other situations? If not you can try
uninstall the old version so that the new version is the only one. `sudo
apt-get remove caffeine` should do. If this doesnt fix it, im out of ideas
:(

On 4 December 2012 15:44, Rohit Pande <email address hidden> wrote:

> Cheers. There is another small error. I use my laptop connected to my TV
> and when I did so in Mint 11, I enabled caffeine and it would allow me to
> close my laptop lid and it wouldn't turn the display off. However in Mint
> 13 MATE this feature is not working with Caffeine. Do you reckon that there
> could be a solution to this by any chance? Thanks a lot. :)
>
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> Title:
> Caffeine does not work for Linux Mint - Mate version
>
> Status in Caffeine:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Hi, Caffeine currently does not work as is for the MATE version of
> linux mint, since as a part of their forking of Gnome 2 all the names
> have changed. I have attached a patch of the changes i have made to
> get it to work with MATE, basically just copied over the GNOME parts
> and replaced the names with the correct ones. It works perfectly on my
> machine.
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