turn off monitors when logged out [solved]

[SternData]

On 06/17/2015 12:11 PM, SternData wrote:
> 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.
> 


So, I'm not sure why, but it's solved.

dnf remove "gnome-screensaver*" "xscreensaver*"
reboot
dnf install "xscreensaver*"

now when I logout, the screen blanks and the monitors go into
suspend/poweroff mode in about 30 seconds.

-- 
-- Steve