Richard Hughes, the author of gnome-power-manager, has written a bodge in the most recent version of Karmic gnome-power-manager (2.27.5) [1] to prevent screen blanking when using inhibit in gnome-session or xsync. Could you test it to see if it is now working properly (a daily liveCD of karmic should do [2])? Thanks in advanced.
Richard Hughes, the author of gnome-power- manager, has written a bodge in the most recent version of Karmic gnome-power-manager (2.27.5) [1] to prevent screen blanking when using inhibit in gnome-session or xsync. Could you test it to see if it is now working properly (a daily liveCD of karmic should do [2])? Thanks in advanced.
He wrote: manager, and I suspect gnome-session somehow triggers this bug. There's a full writeup in http:// blogs.gnome. org/hughsie/ 2009/07/ 30/accidental- blanking- and-gnome- power-manager/ but I've got next-to-no help in debugging gnome-session or the XSync alarms stuff. "
"There's no bug in gnome-power-
[1] http:// git.gnome. org/cgit/ gnome-power- manager/ commit/ ?id=b5cf34d4b98 61ab916a3ff74a2 a08093ccb75b9f cdimage. ubuntu. com/daily- live/current/
[2] http://