[Bug 57101] Re: ibook default settings: screensaver turns backlight back on

[tjr]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver
  
  Hi,
  with everything left to default settings since install, (presumably) the screensaver turns on the backlight even after I manually switch it off. 
  
   xset dpms force off ; sleep 3 ; gnome-screensaver-command --activate
  (and its brightness key equivalent) will result in a blank screen and backlight turning on after 3 seconds, regardless of battery or AC, so it is indeed the screensaver in the short run. If I simply turn down the screen brightness to off while on AC and come back 8 hours later, I see bright screensaver images (no blank screen). I have not yet dug into that case, but strongly suspect gnome-screensaver to be the culprit, too.
  
  While there are lots of other bugs filed on backlight issues, this one
  is about default preferences. I would expect any kind of
  timeout/powermanagement/screensaver never to turn the backlight back on.
  Even better, to turn it off after a while.
  
  hardware: ibook G4 1 Mhz,
  0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C63 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)
  
  install: breezy dvd, then apt-get dist-upgrade; tinkering with airport
  express, wpa and few other things, but nothing related.
  
  Thank you.
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+ edit: maybe I should have filed 2 separate bug reports:
+ * please make the backlight go off by default (at least after 8 hours)
+ * please make gnome-screensaver never turn the backlight back on
+ 
+ Sorry, I don't know how to split it...

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver
  
  Hi,
  with everything left to default settings since install, (presumably) the screensaver turns on the backlight even after I manually switch it off. 
  
   xset dpms force off ; sleep 3 ; gnome-screensaver-command --activate
  (and its brightness key equivalent) will result in a blank screen and backlight turning on after 3 seconds, regardless of battery or AC, so it is indeed the screensaver in the short run. If I simply turn down the screen brightness to off while on AC and come back 8 hours later, I see bright screensaver images (no blank screen). I have not yet dug into that case, but strongly suspect gnome-screensaver to be the culprit, too.
  
  While there are lots of other bugs filed on backlight issues, this one
  is about default preferences. I would expect any kind of
  timeout/powermanagement/screensaver never to turn the backlight back on.
  Even better, to turn it off after a while.
  
  hardware: ibook G4 1 Mhz,
  0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C63 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)
  
  install: breezy dvd, then apt-get dist-upgrade; tinkering with airport
  express, wpa and few other things, but nothing related.
  
  Thank you.
  
  
  
  edit: maybe I should have filed 2 separate bug reports:
  * please make the backlight go off by default (at least after 8 hours)
- * please make gnome-screensaver never turn the backlight back on
+ * please make gnome-screensaver never turn the backlight back on (see also #46741 ?)
  
  Sorry, I don't know how to split it...

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ibook default settings: screensaver turns backlight back on
https://launchpad.net/bugs/57101