power setting "display off" maximum is 15 minutes, used to have several hour increment values
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
In the POWER settings for blanking the display, there used to be several options that allowed selecting a time interval of 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, etc.
Under Ubuntu 18.04.2 there are only 9 selectable time values:
i.e. 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 4 min, 5 min, 8 min, 10 min, 12 min, 15 minutes, and never.
This might be fine for a portable laptop running on batteries, but is not acceptable for a desktop system.
The never option is not good, because then the monitor NEVER goes dark.
My preferred time is to set this to 1-hour because of the length of conference calls.
It is a real nuisance to have the screen blank on you while you are reading information displayed on the screen to a multi-person conference call... ...Especially if you lock your screen, requiring you to log back on.
I suggest adding some of the time values back to the pull down list, or possibly adding a "other" fill-in value box where the user can specify in minutes when he wants the screen to blank when idle.
I consider this to be a bug, and not a feature enhancement, because I used to be able to say "1 hour".
| Bill Turner, wb4alm (wb4alm) wrote | #1 |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
This should be a very simple thing to fix. And if I knew "C" I would fix it myself.
but I don't, my knowledge base is in many other computer programming languages that date all the way back to the 1960's. While I still program computers, now-a-days they are primarily a tool to be used in solving other problems...
In my opinion, the best long term fix would be to provide a "[ ] other" box with a way to allow entering the actual idle time desired -- then a user can set it to what ever their circumstances dictates.
unfortunately, The concept of "keyboard idle" is not necessarily the best indication of an "unattended terminal". and the futuristic concept of tracking eyeball movements to see if anybody is actually looking at the screen, would probably not be acceptable to most humans.
"15 min" of no keyboard/mouse movement is too short a time period, especially when the screen is being used to display reference material.
"never" is too long, especially when you need to keep user specific background processes running - or I would simply logoff and log back on later.
(One would hope that the user selectable "idle time" values are being translated internally to some form of seconds or minutes, and that they are not simply used to set a series of "bit switches", thus my suggestion to provide a text entry box.)
I would also like to suggest that most folks use a computer to solve real world problems, and that computers exist primarily as a tool to be used, and not just as just programming exercises....
Thank you.
<soap box off>