power monitor constantly locking screen

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openSuse 11.1 on Lenovo laptop t500 thinkpad.

Several weeks ago, the power monitor started locking the screen constantly. It is very irritating to have to unlock the screen every 5 minutes (the maximum delay that can be set as far as I know).

How can I turn the power monitor off/on. Most of the time, it is in the docking station and I would rather have the power monitor turned off. I only need it when I am on the road.

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Regarding the annoying lock of the screen, I had this problem too (OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit on a M2300 Dell Precision).

I think the problem is a bug related to Powerdevil and I tried to change some options here and there hoping to find a workaround.

Actually I succeeded in wiping out this behaviour, even if I’m not sure of the method. Now I upgraded to 11.2 (distribution upgrade) and everything seems OK (so it’s impossibile to try tonrevert things).

Try this one:

  • Configure desktop
  • Advanced
  • Power management
  • Edit Profiles
  • Set “Do nothing” on “When the system is idle for more than” for some or all of profiles ignoring the time limit set for this option (I have/had 15 m and the screen got locked every few minutes).

I’m not sure this is the correct workaround (I solved with “an undocumented trial and error procedure”), but it’s worth a try and you can always reverse …

Bye, bye.

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I also have the same problem on my laptop, and configuring the desktop did not help. I only change the options for ‘performance mode’ because my laptop is usually always plugged in.

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What a pity!

I thought that was the right thing …

Sorry, but I can’t remember what I did more …

Bye.