Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #199522
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 199522

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 199522] Re: Dim on idle does not brighten with activity

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 05:10 +0000, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> Yes, this is an improvement. thanks. When the display dims on
> inactivity, resuming activity brightens the screen. However, the display
> does not dim on inactivity regularly. While testing this it would dim
> after maybe 30 secs to a min. After a few cycles it stopped dimming.
> Maybe I need to wait longer each time, but I gave it several minutes of
> inactivity and it never dimmed again.

Jim, actually that's a feature. Basically GPM backs off if you're just
catching it when it goes idle and immediately waking it up again. It
basically assumes that you're time is set too short for what you're
working on. It's timing the amount of time you leave it idle.

Now, it should starting idling again after a while. Please open another
bug if that is not the case.