F21 Final RC1 - Xfce screensave not turning off backlight

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Dec 2 04:25:47 UTC 2014


On 12/01/2014 09:31 PM, Mukundan Ragavan wrote:
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> On 12/01/2014 04:26 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 12/01/2014 04:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> I have gone through the power management and have specified that
>>> after 9 minutes (on AC) to blank the screen and after 10 min (one
>>> more minute) to turn off the screen.  Well it has been over 30
>>> minutes and the screen backlight is still on.
>>>
>>> This is a Lenovo x120e.
>> Even on battery, there is still some backlight.  Less, for sure,
>> but when I turn the room light off, I can still see it.
>>
>> On my other Lenovo x120e with F20 and Gnome, the screen really
>> turns off.
>>
>>
> Unfortunately, I do not see this on my laptop. Has this started
> happening recently?
>
> I have submitted a new update to xfce4-power-manager
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfce4-power-manager-1.4.2-1.fc21
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> Would you be able to give it a try and see if that works?

No difference.  Screen is not turning off, nor did I see anything in the 
bios to control this.  I will boot with the LiveCD tomorrow to get Gnome 
on F21 and see if the screen turns off with Gnome on F21 on this Lenovo...




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