[ubuntu-uk] 12.10 Teething Troubles

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 08/01/13 10:06, Colin Law wrote:
> On 8 January 2013 09:54, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/01/13 09:45, Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 8 January 2013 08:10, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi - Now I have 12.10 running on this was-Windows machine, via the USB
>>>> stick
>>>> booting method, I have one or two teething troubles with it. Generally
>>>> one
>>>> or two restarts will sort them out, but not all of them. The main thing
>>>> I'm
>>>> vexed by is that I can't prevent it from switching off the screen after
>>>> ten
>>>> minutes inactive, even though I have put the settings in both the "Power"
>>>> and "Brightness and Lock" to never switch the screen off. Is there any
>>>> third
>>>> control that could be doing this?
>>> You say it switches off after 10 mins, what happens if you set it (in
>>> Brightness and Lock) to 5 mins?  What if you set it to 1 hour? Have you got
>>> Lock Off in Brightness and Lock? Colin
>> Yup, I've tried all that; it's just stuck in 10 minute mode. Apart from
>> that, there's nothing that's actually stuck, though quite a few things
>> didn't work first time and needed reboots. Oh, and it can't configure
>> Bluetooth on this machine (Compaq CQ58). Bluetooth just shows as "disabled"
>> whether the hardware switch (f11) is on or off. I've never used Bluetooth
>> and have no need for it, but I suspect this may be a common problem.
> Could be
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1072531
> or
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1046118
>
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> Colin
>
Indeed. Thank you very much for finding those. It looks as if the Ubuntu 
team have been working to fix this for several months. But as a matter 
of fact, in my case, I think it may not be a specific bug of that sort, 
but rather a general tendency for new settings to be slow to take 
effect, or require repeated re-application before they finally take 
effect. This is my impression after making the large number of GUI 
personal settings that one always does, to get one's GUI exactly to 
one's taste. So, if that's the case, it will clear of its own accord.