turn off monitors when logged out

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Wed Jun 17 17:11:33 UTC 2015


On 06/17/2015 11:08 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> As far as I know, the login screen runs as a different user
> (gdb, for instance, runs as user "gdm").
> 
> Since all the settings for power management, screensaver, etc
> are per-user settings, to get changes to stick, you need to get
> that user to have the right settings (which is non-trivial
> since the settings are usually stashed in dconf, but changing
> a different user's dconf is tricky, plus you need to discover
> the actual names of the relevant settings in the dconf database).
> 
Why oh why is this so hard?

It used to work, pre-F22.

I tried gnome-screensaver, then removed it and went back to xscreensaver.

I'll keep plugging away at this.

-- 
-- Steve


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