Re: laptop backlight control with X

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On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 18:10 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-26 at 23:48 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 00:12 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:02 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:45 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> > > > > I noticed that the backlight on my laptop will turn off in 20 min of
> > > > > inactivity. How do I change this to 10 min? I fiddled with
> > > > > gnome-power-manager but didn't help. Is this an X setting?
> > > > > 
> > > > > -Louis
> > > > 
> > > > It's part of xscreensaver, if that's installed.  Don't know about
> > > > gnome-screensaver (sp?).
> > > > -- 
> > > > ____________________________________________________________________
> > > > TonyN.:'    The Great Writ     <mailto:tonynelson georgeanelson com>
> > > >       '      is no more.             <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> > > 
> > > gnome-screensaver has nothing for dpms, not even in gconf. xscreensaver
> > > is not installed. Would it be hard coded in X?
> > > 
> > > -Louis
> > 
> > You can adjust it in xorg.conf or with xset(1).  The option lines
> > below do the magic.  For CRT monitors I like to stagger the times a
> > bit to minimize thermal cycling damage.  blank/standby/suspend/off get
> > set to 10/11/12/13 minutes.  For laptop LCD's it hardly matters.  I
> > just turn the sucker off in one go and with a shorter timeout.
> > 
> > >From my fc5 xorg.conf file:
> > 
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> > #	Identifier     "Default Layout"
> > 	Identifier     "ancho, ATI Radeon-200M,builtin WXGA LCD"
> > 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> > 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > 	InputDevice    "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
> > 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
> > 
> > 	# added these next 4 -wsr
> > 	# LCD monitors seem to only have two modes, on/off
> > 	# don't bother going through all the intermediate modes.
> > 	Option		"blank time"	"5"	# 5 minutes
> > 	Option		"standby time"	"0"     # disable
> > 	Option		"suspend time"	"0"     # disable
> >       Option		"off time"	"5"	# same as blank time.
> > EndSection
> > 
> > -wolfgang
> 
> I'm on fc6 and the xorg.conf lines didn't work. the manpage said to
> put these under "ServerFlags" which didn't work either. The xset
> command works but I'm looking for something more permanent.
> 
> Seems gnome-power-manager does nothing at all.
> 
> -Louis

Found out gnome-power-manager sets dpms. Why doesn't it allow anything
below 11 minute?

-Louis

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