I assume you have double-checked Gnome's power management preferences and they are what you'd expect, right? -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Olson" <chris_e_olson@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "CentOS Mailing List" <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, 20 December, 2015 21:05:53 > Subject: Power Management > Recent power management discussions plugged into one of our > current frustrations, namely the interaction of the screen > lock and power-save features on Intel/CentOS 6 platforms. > We certainly would not have guessed that locking the screen > would inhibit going into the power-save mode, but it sure > seems to do exactly that on some of our test platforms. > > If one leaves the desktop idle for the timeout period, the > computer sleeps. If one locks the screen and then leaves > the machine idle, the computer does not sleep. We were > hoping that this "feature" was isolated to just our older > Dell desktop machine hardware and firmware, but it appears > elsewhere as well. > > Possibly more interesting is that most of our systems were > loaded with CentOS 6.X almost two years ago and have been > updated at least weekly ever since. This new power-save > scenario has appeared just within the last three weeks,and our investigations > have not discovered the cause ora solution. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos