How to increase display-sleep in power manager?

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> 	Why can we not set display sleep in gnome power manager to more than 1 
>> hour? When did that change? Or at least I _think_ I used to be able to 
>> set display sleep to 2 or so hours in 8.04...
>>
>> 	Anyway, I just need to find which config file to tweak to get it to go 
>> in display sleep after 3 or 4 hours. Any pointers? Searching so far 
>> hasn't yielded anything....
>>
>>
> Well, I did find this:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/59589
> ... which doesn't say how to increase it. But apparently the Gnome HIG 
> group decided that nobody should wait more than 1 hour before their 
> computer display goes to sleep...
> 
> 	Yes, I was a good boy, and deleted my original message. Didn't want to 
> start another "lively discussion"
> 

	Well, it appears that you can manually enter the value you want in 
gconf Config Editor... apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_display_ac.
	I set it to 6600 there, keeping in mind that the screensaver is set to 
10 minutes (600 seconds). I didn't use a stop watch, but it did blank 
the screen after (about) 2 hours, 7200 seconds.
	I'll watch again to confirm.

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