I’ve tried everything that I could think of and everything that came up
by googling the problem. After a few minutes, whether the screensaver is
on or not, whether the power management is enabled or not, whether the
require password button is checked or not, the screensaver will start and
require a password to log back in. Surprisingly, it does select the
screensaver that was last checked, even when it’s not set to come on.
It’s getting a little bit annoying. Are there any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Tom
What DE are you using? I’m assuming KDE 4.X…
I had a pain in the neck experience with mnaing OpenSuse behave the way I wanted it to, from editing power settings, to screensaver to monitor…
KDE4 is not that intuitive in this area right now.
I completely forgot to mention that. Thanks for the reminder.
It’s KDE 4.2 on Opensuse 11.1 (64bit).
Thanks.
deano ferrari wrote:
>
> What DE are you using? I’m assuming KDE 4.X…
>
>
Go to Configure Desktop - Display - Power Control
Uncheck the box there ‘Enable Display Power Management’
Then obviously in Configure Desktop -Advanced Tab - Power Management
make sure all your settings are to not lock screen.
If that does not work, go to hidden files in /home/username
and rename the file .kde4/share/config/powerdevilrc
to powerdevilrc_old
logout
login
start customizing your power settings again
I’ve seen this behaviour on a fresh 11.1 32-bit install with all updates applied. When I downgraded to plain 11.1 everything was working like expected. This must be a bug introduced with one of the updates.
This was driving me nuts too, tried the personal settings application under general - display - power control and under advanced - power management and no combination of settings helped keep my screen powered up.
I clicked on the Kpowersave managemnet icon in the system tray and noticed power managemnet settings there too. Changing them from the icon seems to have done the trick.
No idea why there are three places to manage this that don’t seem to share settings and two of them don’t seem to work.
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:56:02 GMT, stan qaz
<stan_qaz@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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>This was driving me nuts too, tried the personal settings application
>under general - display - power control and under advanced - power
>management and no combination of settings helped keep my screen powered
>up.
>
>I clicked on the Kpowersave managemnet icon in the system tray and
>noticed power managemnet settings there too. Changing them from the icon
>seems to have done the trick.
>
>No idea why there are three places to manage this that don’t seem to
>share settings and two of them don’t seem to work.
That signals not ready for prime time to me.
I clicked on the Kpowersave managemnet icon in the system tray and noticed power managemnet settings there too. Changing them from the icon seems to have done the trick.
No idea why there are three places to manage this that don’t seem to share settings and two of them don’t seem to work.
This happens if you have the powersaved daemon and kpowersave (KDE3 power management) running. Then PowerDevil (the new power management system) will not work.
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