Issues found w.r.t Power Manager

[Zenwalker]

>
> What do you mean by “its job”?
>
Like to put off the display or sleep the computer or any power management
job its configured to do.

 If what you're using is xscreensaver, it will reset the DPMS settings to
> what's configured inside xscreensaver.

I have disabled the screensaver. So when i lock the screen, its just goes to
blank screen.

Because then the xfpm DPMS settings are re-enabled.
>
Its good that these settings are not disabled. Or atleast be re-enabled when
screen is unlocked. Right?

 Again, xflock4 doesn't do anything.
>
> What you can do is check the output of xset -q.

For my test case, XFLOCK is the entry point right. But i dunno whats behind
the scenes. Any ways when i should check for xset command?

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 21:46 +0530, Zenwalker wrote:
> > I mean, why is that behaviour happening, that when xflock is used,
>
> xflock4 is *just* a wrapper, it doesn't do anything by itself.
>
> >  the power manager wont do its job after screen is unlocked.
>
> What do you mean by “its job”?
>
> >  Is it a bug?
>
> If what you're using is xscreensaver, it will reset the DPMS settings to
> what's configured inside xscreensaver.
>
> > But if the power manager is closed (right click on system tray icon
> > and quit) then again starting it, it shall do its job perfectly.
>
> Because then the xfpm DPMS settings are re-enabled.
>
> >  So xflock is causing some problem to power manager to not do its job
> > consistently or some thing is wrong.
>
> Again, xflock4 doesn't do anything.
>
> What you can do is check the output of xset -q.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Yves-Alexis
>
>


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