Comment 61 for bug 30969

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: [Bug 30969] Re: monitor suspends regardless of gnome-power-manager timeouts

Shirish Agarwal wrote:
> I don't know whether its the right bug or should I put up a new bug for
> this. These are the symptoms of what happens on my desktop :-
>
> I am on Hardy 8.04 with all updates.
>
> 1. While working many a times the screen/monitor goes blank
> 2. When it goes blank then I don't get access back by clicking either on mouse or keyboard.
> 3. I have to restart the system either cold-starting or using SysRQ magic.
>
> This is the output of gconftool-2 -R /apps/gnome-power-manager
>
>

Hi,

This is not the same bug - this one here is for when the screen goes
blank after a certain period of idleness, ignoring any user settings. It
comes back by moving the mouse or using the keyboard.

Iain