[Goodies-dev] xfce4-power-manager turning off monitor on lid close

[Adam]

Ali Abdallah wrote:
> That's why i said isn't related to the running power manager, i mean
> DPMSForceLevel DPMSModeOn should turn on the screen, if not then dpms
> is broken for your system, and i think it should be reported to X guys.

Are you sure about this?

I tried doing the exact same thing on my desktop PC and "xset dpms force
on" only enabled the backlight but the screen was still blank. I'm not
running a screensaver on this PC either.


> anyway, i will post on your bug report if i figure out something else.
>
>>
>> Adam.
>>
>>
>> Ali Abdallah wrote:
>>> Adam Black wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ali Abdallah wrote:
>>>>> Adam wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Without the "xset s reset" line the screen would remain blank.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If someone can take a look at this issue it would be appreciated.
>>>>> Do you have a screen saver application running? please check that,
>>>>> try to stop any screen saver daemon and test, see if your screen
>>>>> remains blank.
>>>> I do not have a screensaver daemon running.
>>>>
>>>> If I remotely log into the machine and enter the commands:
>>>> >xset dpms force off
>>>>
>>>> followed by:
>>>> >xset dpms force on
>>>>
>>>> My screen remains blank but the backlight turns on.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this piece of information is relevant or not.
>>>
>>> Please open a bug report, not sure if this is related to
>>> xfce4-power-manager, but i have something in my mind that i want you
>>> to try.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ali.
>>>
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