Hi, I have noticed following behavior regarding gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager on my laptop. If I switch from internal display to external one and then close the lid of the laptop then screensaver only shows blank screen instead of selected theme. If I open the lid while screensaver is still on then the selected screensaver theme is activated and stays on after I close the lid. If I stop the screensaver by moving mouse and let it start again while lid is closed only blank screen is activated. Also Gnome-Power-manager doesn't switch off external display after the idle time set in the parameters, the external display stays always on if I close the lid of the laptop or/and I switch off internal display. There must be some logic in gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager that looks if laptop internal screen is off or if the lid is closed and then it does not activate screensaver or DPMS features because they are not needed. Problem is that if one uses external display with internal laptop display swithced off or lid closed screensaver should be activated and DPMS should still work for external display. I think gnome-screenasver and gnome-power-manager code should be changed to become aware of the display that is being used and if the external display is used they should ignore on/off status of internal display or lid position. I have noticed that if I switch the internal display to external display while my laptop lid is closed and after external display is activated then I kill gnome-screensaver and start it again then screensaver is working properly on external display despite the fact that laptop lid is closed. I have tried same procedure with gnome-power-manager but it doesn't help with it.
I use ubuntu 9.10 on Samsung Q35 laptop. -- Lock Screen blanks screen instead of showing screensaver (on external monitor) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/71030 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
