Comment 19 for bug 1238410

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Patch series starting here:
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-October/038198.html
>
> The patches seem to work correctly for me in my testing.

I should qualify that.

Per-device alarms seem to work great, I wasn't able to make the cursor disappear completely without it reappearing when using the touchpad. This was my reproducer:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706229#c21

However, gnome-settings-daemon's power plugin watches for the global idle time, and it has trouble turning the backlight back on when a key is pressed.

My test case is:
- setup "blank screen" to 1 min in the power settings
- let it blank
- press esc once the screen has gone completely black
- wait a second, screen doesn't turn on
- press ctrl, you'll see the password prompt instead of the shield, meaning that gnome-shell did receive the "esc" (that dismisses the shield) but gnome-settings-daemon didn't notice the key press as not being idle anymore and didn't turn on the backlight.