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[Daniel G Billings Jr <dbillingsjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Setting the monitor to never sleep has no effect, X will force it to
sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity regardless of what you set.  There
is a very simple workaround of disabling that feature in X, but there is
no GUI to do this, and it's particularly troublesome for a multimedia
PC, where it can be in active use despite no one having touched any
input devices for over an hour (e.g. while watching a movie).

Again, there is a simple workaround, but the fact that a workaround
exists doesn't make it less of a bug, especially when the workaround
requires things that an average user would shy away from (terminal/X
settings).  I know for a fact that it does this on both Nvidia and AMD
proprietary drivers (installed through the additional drivers dialogue),
and I haven't specifically tested it, but find it highly likely that it
would do this with the open source variants as well.

Maybe related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/273484
But I didn't find any other reports of monitors sleeping too much.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-33.38~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt7
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Nov 20 11:17:16 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-16 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
SourcePackage: unity-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_unity-control-center: deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4

** Affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1518383

Title:
  Monitor sleeps without regard to brightness & lock settings

Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Setting the monitor to never sleep has no effect, X will force it to
  sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity regardless of what you set.
  There is a very simple workaround of disabling that feature in X, but
  there is no GUI to do this, and it's particularly troublesome for a
  multimedia PC, where it can be in active use despite no one having
  touched any input devices for over an hour (e.g. while watching a
  movie).

  Again, there is a simple workaround, but the fact that a workaround
  exists doesn't make it less of a bug, especially when the workaround
  requires things that an average user would shy away from (terminal/X
  settings).  I know for a fact that it does this on both Nvidia and AMD
  proprietary drivers (installed through the additional drivers
  dialogue), and I haven't specifically tested it, but find it highly
  likely that it would do this with the open source variants as well.

  Maybe related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/273484
  But I didn't find any other reports of monitors sleeping too much.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140922-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-33.38~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt7
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-33-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Nov 20 11:17:16 2015
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/unity-control-center
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-16 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
  SourcePackage: unity-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  usr_lib_unity-control-center: deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4

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