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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #10686
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 10686

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 10686] Re: No GUI method to disable screen lock on lid close event

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 09:31 +0000, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> I can see the screensaver in the interval between the Suspend button and
> the end of the suspend process. This is very important for me because I
> can see that the suspend command has been accepted and a suspend is
> in progress. If I disable the screenlock I press the button and have
> no idea if it is suspending or not until the laptop is switched off.

I'm sorry, I just don't see that use case. I agree that feedback is
important, but the screensaver is not the answer. Something like the
screen dimming similar to logout would make sense to me.