I am having similar issues on Xubuntu 12.10. Everything worked perfectly on earlier versions of Xubuntu. Now, no matter what I do, xscreensaver will not allow the monitor to power off. In fact, if I run "xflock4;;xset dpms force off" the monitor powers off, and gets woken back up5-10 seconds later! If I run "xset dpms force off" without xscreensaver, the monitor stays off. xscreensaver is obviously preventing my screen from staying off.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xscreensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924278 Title: xscreensaver doesn't enable DPMS Status in “xscreensaver” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 dev with xscreensaver 5.15-2ubuntu1. The configuration menu xscreensaver-demo provides under the register Advanced the option "Power Management Enable". But this option doesn't enable DPMS (xset -q says "DPMS is Disabled") so the screen can never go in the standby mode. The only way to get it work is to call xset +dpms. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xscreensaver/+bug/924278/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
