Hi all,

When I lock the work station my monitor turns off properly after 30 minutes. When I log out and no one else logs in the monitor turns off after 30 minutes. I suspect that it is controlled by the settings that I use in my account.

I would like to shorten the time to 5 minutes before the monitor is turned off when no one is logged in. Is this possible?

I am running Ubuntu 9.10.

cheers,
Troy

That 30 minutes is controlled bij the power management .
30 minutus is the default

I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 (so KDE 3) and the monitor's power saving settings are set under
System Settings -> Monitor -> Power saving

There must be something similar for gnome, you'll just have to look for it.

I can control the power settings fine (system/preferences/power management) from the desktop. This only seems to be a global setting. If I change it from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. This affects the login screen as well as when I lock the workstation.

What I would like to do is have a separate time to turn off the monitor. One time when I lock the computer (i.e. I am still logged in but have used the lock screen option). I also want another time for when no one is logged into the computer. I would like that time to be 5 minutes.

I was wondering if this was possible? I thought that the power management settings that I alter from my desktop would only affect me. It seems to affect the login screen.

Any ideas would be appreciated. If it isn't possible, or too difficult then that is fine too.

Thanks for the replies!

I am guessing that the timeout for the login screen will be the same as the timeout selected by the last user to logout. You could create another user, with a different timeout value and test this.

I don't think there's a simple way to achieve what you'd like, but there's always the soucecode available for you to have a look at, see how it works, and either improve on it, or just hack it until it behaves as you'd like.

tredegar, thanks for confirming.

I had suspected as much. I am sure that it wouldn't be as difficult as hacking the code. I think it involves figuring out the user that owns the login session and using xset as that user.

It is probably not difficult, it's probably not apparent .