melissa@melissa-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RH628ES-ABU ~ $ dpkg -l | grep power-manager
ii xfce4-power-manager 1.0.11-0ubuntu2+peppermint1 power manager for Xfce desktop
ii xfce4-power-manager-data 1.0.11-0ubuntu2+peppermint1 power manager for Xfce desktop, arch-indep files
melissa@melissa-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RH628ES-ABU ~ $
can you post the output from:
locate xfce4-power-manager | grep home
melissa@melissa-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RH628ES-ABU ~ $ locate xfce4-power-manager | grep home
melissa@melissa-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RH628ES-ABU ~ $
Sorry been busy lately Mark.
OK, if you’re usinng xscreensaver, can you post the contents of
gedit ~/.xscreensaver
XScreenSaver Preferences File
Written by xscreensaver-demo 5.15 for melissa on Sun Feb 8 00:11:32 2015.
XScreenSaver
timeout: 0:36:00
cycle: 0:03:00
lock: False
lockTimeout: 0:00:00
passwdTimeout: 0:00:30
visualID: default
installColormap: True
verbose: False
timestamp: True
splash: True
splashDuration: 0:00:05
demoCommand: xscreensaver-demo
prefsCommand: xscreensaver-demo -prefs
nice: 10
memoryLimit: 0
fade: False
unfade: False
fadeSeconds: 0:00:01
fadeTicks: 20
captureStderr: True
ignoreUninstalledPrograms:False
font: -medium-r--140--m-
dpmsEnabled: False
dpmsQuickOff: False
dpmsStandby: 2:00:00
dpmsSuspend: 2:00:00
dpmsOff: 4:00:00
grabDesktopImages: False
grabVideoFrames: False
chooseRandomImages: True
imageDirectory: /home/melissa/Documents/Beethoven portraits and pictures
mode: one
selected: 142
textMode: url
textLiteral: XScreenSaver
textFile:
textProgram: fortune
textURL: Comments on:
programs:
maze -root \n\
- GL: superquadrics -root \n
attraction -root \n
blitspin -root \n
greynetic -root \n
helix -root \n
hopalong -root \n
imsmap -root \n
noseguy -root \n
pyro -root \n
qix -root \n
rocks -root \n
rorschach -root \n
decayscreen -root \n
flame -root \n
halo -root \n
slidescreen -root \n
pedal -root \n
bouboule -root \n\ -
GL: jigsaw -root \nbraid -root \n\ coral -root \n\ deco -root \n\ drift -root \n\ fadeplot -root \n\ galaxy -root \n\ goop -root \n\ grav -root \n\ ifs -root \n\
julia -root \n
kaleidescope -root \n
GL: moebius -root \n
moire -root \n
GL: morph3d -root \n
mountain -root \n
munch -root \n
penrose -root \n
GL: pipes -root \n
rd-bomb -root \n
GL: rubik -root \n\ -
sierpinski -root \n\ slip -root \n\ - GL: sproingies -root \n
starfish -root \n
strange -root \n
swirl -root \n
triangle -root \n
xjack -root \n
xlyap -root \n\ - GL: atlantis -root \n
bsod -root \n\ - GL: bubble3d -root \n\
- GL: cage -root \n\
-
GL: glplanet -root \ncrystal -root \n\ cynosure -root \n\ discrete -root \n\ distort -root \n\ epicycle -root \n\ flow -root \n\
interference -root \n
kumppa -root \n
GL: lament -root \n
moire2 -root \n\ - GL: sonar -root \n\
- GL: stairs -root \n
truchet -root \n\ -
vidwhacker -root \n\ blaster -root \n\ bumps -root \n\ ccurve -root \n\ compass -root \n\ deluxe -root \n\ -
GL: extrusion -root \ndemon -root \n\
loop -root \n
penetrate -root \n
petri -root \n
phosphor -root \n
GL: pulsar -root \n
ripples -root \n
shadebobs -root \n\ - GL: sierpinski3d -root \n
spotlight -root \n
squiral -root \n
wander -root \n\ -
GL: gflux -root \nwebcollage -root \n\ xflame -root \n\ xmatrix -root \n\
nerverot -root \n
xrayswarm -root \n
xspirograph -root \n\ - GL: circuit -root \n\
- GL: dangerball -root \n
GL: engine -root \n
GL: flipscreen3d -root \n
GL: gltext -root \n
GL: menger -root \n
GL: molecule -root \n
rotzoomer -root \n
speedmine -root \n\ - GL: starwars -root \n\
- GL: stonerview -root \n
vermiculate -root \n
whirlwindwarp -root \n
zoom -root \n
anemone -root \n
apollonian -root \n\ - GL: boxed -root \n\
- GL: cubenetic -root \n
GL: endgame -root \n
euler2d -root \n
fluidballs -root \n
GL: flurry -root \n
GL: glblur -root \n
GL: glsnake -root \n
halftone -root \n
GL: juggler3d -root \n
GL: lavalite -root \n
polyominoes -root \n
GL: queens -root \n\ - GL: sballs -root \n\
- GL: spheremonics -root \n\
-
thornbird -root \n\ twang -root \n\ - GL: antspotlight -root \n
apple2 -root \n\ - GL: atunnel -root \n
barcode -root \n\ - GL: blinkbox -root \n\
- GL: blocktube -root \n\
- GL: bouncingcow -root \n
cloudlife -root \n\ - GL: cubestorm -root \n
eruption -root \n
GL: flipflop -root \n
GL: flyingtoasters -root \n
fontglide -root \n
GL: gleidescope -root \n
GL: glknots -root \n
GL: glmatrix -root \n
GL: glslideshow -root -delay 36508 -duration
10 -pan 12 -fade 0 \n
GL: hypertorus -root \n
GL: jigglypuff -root \n
metaballs -root \n
GL: mirrorblob -root \n
piecewise -root \n
GL: polytopes -root \n
pong -root \n
popsquares -root \n\ - GL: surfaces -root \n
xanalogtv -root \n\ -
abstractile -root \n\ anemotaxis -root \n\ - GL: antinspect -root \n
fireworkx -root \n
fuzzyflakes -root -color #FF00FF \n
interaggregate -root \n
intermomentary -root \n
memscroller -root \n
GL: noof -root \n
pacman -root \n
GL: pinion -root \n
GL: polyhedra -root \n
GL: providence -root \n
substrate -root \n
wormhole -root \n\ - GL: antmaze -root \n\
- GL: boing -root \n
boxfit -root \n\ - GL: carousel -root \n
celtic -root \n\ - GL: crackberg -root \n\
- GL: cube21 -root \n
fiberlamp -root \n
GL: fliptext -root \n
GL: glhanoi -root \n\ - GL: tangram -root \n\
- GL: timetunnel -root \n
GL: glschool -root \n\ - GL: topblock -root \n\
- GL: cubicgrid -root \n
cwaves -root \n
GL: gears -root \n
GL: glcells -root \n
GL: lockward -root \n
m6502 -root \n
GL: moebiusgears -root \n\ - GL: voronoi -root \n
GL: hypnowheel -root \n
GL: klein -root \n
lcdscrub -root \n
GL: photopile -root \n\ - GL: skytentacles -root \n\
- GL: rubikblocks -root \n\
- GL: companioncube -root \n
GL: hilbert -root \n\ - GL: tronbit -root \n
unicode -root \n\
pointerPollTime: 0:00:05
pointerHysteresis: 10
windowCreationTimeout:0:00:30
initialDelay: 0:00:00
GetViewPortIsFullOfLies:False
procInterrupts: True
xinputExtensionDev: False
overlayStderr: True
OK what exactly is the problem … you’ve got it set to trigger a single screensaver after 36 minutes … is that not what’s happening ?
if not, exactly what is happening ?
is the screensaver coming on earlier, or is it blanking the screen ?
When I watch an online video eg iplayer, after about 10-15 mins the screen goes black- blanking screen and I have to move the mouse to make the screen go back to the video. Screensaver doesn’t come on unless I don’t touch laptop for about 30 mins- (e.g I go upstairs with laptop left on and have a shower, or go and hamg laundry out etc) then it will eventually come on.
I may have asked you to do this before, but can you do it again anyway.
REBOOT
Now without doing anything else first, can you open a terminal and post the output from:
xset -q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 33
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 0 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 10
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 7200 Suspend: 7200 Off: 14400
DPMS is Disabled
melissa@melissa-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RH628ES-ABU ~ $
OK this is just weird … I’d have expected with the settings you’re showing thee that there’d be NO blanking
DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 7200 Suspend: 7200 Off: 14400 [b]DPMS is Disabled[/b]
OR screensaver
Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: [b]0[/b] cycle: 0
Are you 100% sure this output was from the PC that’s blanking after 10mins ?
Yes, it is Mark.
I know Kubuntu is different from Peppermint but could it be the energysaver?
In Kubuntu there’s this…
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/450x400q90/901/Nt4CAp.jpg
I too was having my screen go blank and could not understand why when looking at the screensaver settings and then I remembered the setting for screen energy saving in Power Management and turned that off and now my screen does not go blank/switch off any more.
Thanks will take a look.