A problem I've encountered on Freya is an issue regarding the 'Dim screen when inactive' option in the power settings. No matter whether I have this option on or off, my screen never dims or turns off when I have the power cord connected. I can't close the laptop or it will go to sleep and stop what I'm doing, and if I leave it on, the screen doesn't dim or turn off.
I'm using an Asus S500CA with Intel Pentium processor and 4gb of ram. I've attatched a more thorough system info report
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.3
Package: elementary-desktop 1.350+394~ubuntu0.3.1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
CurrentDesktop: Pantheon
Date: Wed Sep 24 15:42:53 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-30 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.3 "Freya" - Daily amd64 (20140810)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:
ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
A similar thing happens to me. My screen doesn't dim. What's interesting is that there is no longer a schema for "idle-dim-time" in gsettings. Also, in gsettings, some of the schema repeat. For instance, this is the output of "gsettings list-recursively | grep idle":
org.gnome. desktop. screensaver idle-activation -enabled true desktop. session idle-delay uint32 300 settings- daemon. plugins. power idle-dim true settings- daemon. plugins. power idle-brightness 970 settings- daemon. plugins. power idle-dim true settings- daemon. plugins. power idle-brightness 970
org.gnome.
org.gnome.
org.gnome.
org.gnome.
org.gnome.
I don't know why it repeats. It could be additional settings from the Gnome Control Center packages (they have the prefix "switchboard- plug-gcc" in the package manager).
I'm thinking that some of the settings have their wires crossed.