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  1. Bug #203513
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 203513

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Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75) wrote : Re: display doesn't go to sleep after today's gnome-power-manager update

aha, a cursory look at my as well shown by hirak99 see the timeouts

[x11_sync_server_dpms_settings] gpm-dpms.c:130 (06:53:15): Syncing DPMS settings enabled=1 timeouts=0 0 0

no wonder we are not able to do the same. Looking at xset's man page it says

 dpms flags...
               The dpms option allows the DPMS (Energy Star) parameters to be set. The option can take up to
               three numerical values, or the ‘force’ flag followed by a DPMS state. The ‘force’ flags forces
               the server to immediately switch to the DPMS state specified. The DPMS state can be one of
               ‘standby’, ‘suspend’, ‘off’, or ‘on’. When numerical values are given, they set the inactivity
               period (in units of seconds) before the three modes are activated. The first value given is
               for the ‘standby’ mode, the second is for the ‘suspend’ mode, and the third is for the ‘off’
               mode. Setting these values implicitly enables the DPMS features. A value of zero disables a
               particular mode.