[ubuntu-uk] 12.10 Teething Troubles

[Colin Law]

On 8 January 2013 08:10, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi - Now I have 12.10 running on this was-Windows machine, via the USB stick
> booting method, I have one or two teething troubles with it. Generally one
> or two restarts will sort them out, but not all of them. The main thing I'm
> vexed by is that I can't prevent it from switching off the screen after ten
> minutes inactive, even though I have put the settings in both the "Power"
> and "Brightness and Lock" to never switch the screen off. Is there any third
> control that could be doing this?

You say it switches off after 10 mins, what happens if you set it (in
Brightness and Lock) to 5 mins?  What if you set it to 1 hour?

Have you got Lock Off in Brightness and Lock?

Colin

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