Screen power saving mode will not resume after using VNC prorgram
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
After using the remote desktop program & the VNC viewer programs that are included with the Gutsy version of Ubuntu, the screen blanking/power saving mode function will not resume on the computer that was BEING controlled remotely after the VNC session has been ended by the computer that was DOING the controlling.
I have the screen power saving mode set to go blank after 3 minutes of inactivity on the computer.
Once the VNC session is ended the controlled computer will NOT go into/resume the screen blanking function unless the mouse/cursor is moved or a key is pressed (Of course, if I am at a remote location, say at work and the computer being controlled is at my home, then It is sort of hard for me to either move the mouse or press at key, if I am not there in person).
After the mouse/cursor is moved (when I get home) the screen blanking function WILL resume as normal. However, it would seem to me that once the VNC session is ended that this screen blanking/power saving function should resume without any user intervention. It is as if somehow that computer thinks that there is still activity (i.e. either mouse movement of keyboard activity is taking place) even though there is not.
If you need anymore information, please let me know.
Thanks.
Just an after-thought.
I am surely not the only person that has tried using VNC to remote into one of their Ubuntu workstations on their network and found that when they got back home (or wherever the remote workstation might be located) and found that the monitor had been on/active/ displaying ever since the remote session was ended.
It would seem like to me, that this problem would have been discovered, reported & fixed long, long ago !!!
Thanks.