How to increase display-sleep in power manager?

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Sun Feb 22 15:12:36 UTC 2009


Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 	Why can we not set display sleep in gnome power manager to more than 1 
> hour? When did that change? Or at least I _think_ I used to be able to 
> set display sleep to 2 or so hours in 8.04...
> 
> 	Anyway, I just need to find which config file to tweak to get it to go 
> in display sleep after 3 or 4 hours. Any pointers? Searching so far 
> hasn't yielded anything....
> 
> 
Well, I did find this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/59589
... which doesn't say how to increase it. But apparently the Gnome HIG 
group decided that nobody should wait more than 1 hour before their 
computer display goes to sleep...

	Yes, I was a good boy, and deleted my original message. Didn't want to 
start another "lively discussion"

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