laptop backlight control with X

Louis E Garcia II louisg00 at bellsouth.net
Fri Oct 27 04:12:50 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:02 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:45 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> > I noticed that the backlight on my laptop will turn off in 20 min of
> > inactivity. How do I change this to 10 min? I fiddled with
> > gnome-power-manager but didn't help. Is this an X setting?
> > 
> > -Louis
> 
> It's part of xscreensaver, if that's installed.  Don't know about
> gnome-screensaver (sp?).
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gnome-screensaver has nothing for dpms, not even in gconf. xscreensaver
is not installed. Would it be hard coded in X?

-Louis




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