Power Saving in Display

My monitor don't go in standby mode with last dapper.

OS: "Edgy Release Candidate 1"
KDE VERSION: Kde 3.5.5

The bugs persists!

Problem is:
'systemsettings' run xset:
  Eg: /usr/bin/xset dpms 120 120 120
but no any settings is saved!

I confirm that bug on kubuntu 6.10. For me, the timeout before switching out the monitor always reset itself to 5 hours. It work when I change it. It is in memory but not on disk. It does not get saved.

Yes, the settings is not saved!

On 11/15/06, Martin Hamel <email address hidden> wrote:
> I confirm that bug on kubuntu 6.10. For me, the timeout before switching
> out the monitor always reset itself to 5 hours. It work when I change
> it. It is in memory but not on disk. It does not get saved.
>
> --
> Power Saving in Display
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/48509
>

I have something similar, Whenever I log out or reboot, my powersaving settings in System Settings -> Monitor and Display is reset to 2 or 5 hours, which is a weird setting as a default, but when I change it to 15 min, it changes right back when I re-login.

I'm using amd64 with kubuntu edgy (6.10) and an nvidia (non-free nvidia) driver. The DPMS option was also removed at some point in the xorg.conf file, but I fixed that.

whatever it is, I'll keep an eye on it now...

This bug is bugging me since Dapper and KDE 3.5.3.

Now on Kubuntu 6.10 with KDE 3.5.5 the default standby setting reverts to 5 hours with every reboot (was to 30mins in Dapper).

Please fix this, it is really annoying and literally burns loads of energy. This bug is eating environmental resources.

There is also a bug report on bugs.gde.org regarding this ( http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128696 ), they released a patch. But then there seems to be also a Ubuntu specific problem with the values being interpreted as minutes and not seconds as far as I understand. I am not a programmer :-(

There is also a thread (among others) that report on this bug at Kubuntuforums: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=8180.0

Please, can this bug be given a higher priority? It seems like a trivial bug to fix and it will save megawatts in energy worldwide after it is fixed!
Think of the children! It may make the difference between our world and waterworld ;-)

BTW, with fixed, I mean in an update to Edgy, not in Feisty.

This should be in 3.5.6, which will be in feisty.

Users of 3.5.6 on edgy will also find this fixed.

i'm using kubuntu edgy with kde 3.5.6 and i still have this problem. my monitor never go into power saving mode which i set to kick in after 25 minutes. However, it does remember my setting after reboot. i first thought it was because of beryl, but removing beryl does not make this problem go away. the odd thing is it was working fine before upgrading to kde 3.5.6.

I'm disappointed that this isn't fixed in 3.5.5 as well, as it is quite frustrating to have no control over a user setting. Especially one that affects the lifetime of monitors and real world energy use. Some people actually care about the world's climate!

The problem seems to be that the setting is saved to ~/.kde/share/config/displayconfigrc, but the setting isn't read when starting KDE, instead the default value of 5 hours is used.

Strangely, the first time a user logs in, the time shown in the display settings is 45 minutes.

In office environments, sysadmins are reluctant to install unsupported new versions of critical software (like KDE 3.5.6) or follow the releases when they come out. Fixing this as an update to the stable releases still in support is therefore indicated!

Please, pretty please, fix this in edgy's base updates!

/Simon

I fully agree with Simon Oosthoek. There should also be a fix for KDE 3.5.5 and Dapper Drake LTS (LongTermSupport!!!).

I recently switched away from Kubuntu to openSUSE and this was one of my main reasons for it. This bug was never given a high priority for I don't know what reason. And it took ages before something happened. And now it is still there.

I would reopen this bug as it is not exactly fixed and give it a high priority.