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Improve DPMS settings for the "Blank" Screen Saver (reduce sleep timeout afte...
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RESOLVED: MOVED
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enhancement
Product:
Xfce4-screensaver
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Description q8311692 2020-05-15 12:29:48 CEST
Hello,

xfce4-screensaver --version
xfce4-screensaver 0.1.10
on XFCE 4.14.


Expected Behavior:

- The screen goes to sleep/standby mode a few seconds (e.g. 5 or 15 seconds) after it is locked. 

- If the user wants to change that timespan, he can find it within the xfce4-power-manager.

- The timespan can be changed in minutes or seconds.

(similar to GNOME, where the display is powered down a few seconds after it is locked)


Current Behavior:

- The screen takes - per default - five minutes to go to sleep after it has been locked.

- There aren't any settings to change the "put display to sleep after screen lock" timeout within the xfce4-power-manager. Instead the preferences can be changed only through the xfce4-screensaver-preferences and there within the settings submenu of the "blank" screensaver.

- The timespan can be changed only in minutes, so there is a delay of at least one minute.


What should be changed:

- Put the screen to sleep (DPMS signal) a few seconds after it is locked

- Maybe put a reference to the screensaver settings in the "Display" tab of the xfce4-power-manager to make users aware that the "sleep after lock" timeout can be changed within the screesaver preferences.

- Let the user select a timespan below one minute (e.g. 5s, 15s, 30s, 1m, ...) for the "sleep after screen lock" settings.


Thanks :-)
Comment 1 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-25 22:30:44 CEST
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Bug #16852

Reported by:
q8311692
Reported on: 2020-05-15
Last modified on: 2020-05-25

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Assignee:
Sean Davis
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Version:
0.1.10

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