Ubuntu
xprintidle package

Reported idle time incorrect when screen enters standby

Bug #1669371 reported by Simon Rettberg
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This bug affects 2 people
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xprintidle (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

X used to reset the reported idle time whenever the screen entered a power saving mode, so xprintidle contains a workaround ("workaroundCreepyXServer()") that would add the configured timeouts if it sees that the screen is currently in standby mode. This is however not the case anymore, so whenever the screen enters standby mode, the reported idle time will be too high.
I have no clue who is the official maintainer of xprintidle, the best trace I had led to a website that is now defunct, so I did the next best thing and reported it to some distro I am using.
As far as I can tell, the proper fix is to simply remove the call to "workaroundCreepyXServer".

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xprintidle (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xprintidle - 0.2-12

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xprintidle (0.2-12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added patch to conditionally disable workaround for broken X.org
    server (LP: #1669371).
  * Converted d/copyright to machine readable format.

 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <email address hidden> Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:05:55 +0200

Changed in xprintidle (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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