Well, the issue you're describing isn't the same as the original reporter. CPU usage does not influence the timing of display blanking in gnome-power-manager (you can check that for yourself in src/gpm-idle.c). If CPU usage *is* influencing the timing in some way, then that's a bug in some other component rather than gnome-power-manager.
The 1 minute you set corresponds to the time period between the display dimming, and then switching off (blanking). Is that what you are measuring? If not, then I already said that the dimming time is deliberately variable. The idle dim time will double (from the default 10 seconds) each time you cause a keyboard or mouse event within 10 seconds of going idle
Well, the issue you're describing isn't the same as the original reporter. CPU usage does not influence the timing of display blanking in gnome-power-manager (you can check that for yourself in src/gpm-idle.c). If CPU usage *is* influencing the timing in some way, then that's a bug in some other component rather than gnome-power- manager.
The 1 minute you set corresponds to the time period between the display dimming, and then switching off (blanking). Is that what you are measuring? If not, then I already said that the dimming time is deliberately variable. The idle dim time will double (from the default 10 seconds) each time you cause a keyboard or mouse event within 10 seconds of going idle