Re: Prevent screen from going to sleep

[Marco <netuse lavabit com>]

On 2012-03-01 Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org> wrote:

I think there are two issues mixed up in this discussion.

1) VLC does not support Gnome's way of inhibiting the screensaver
   That's unfortunate but I can live with that.

2) The setting
   org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-battery|ac
   has no effect  at all. There is  no way to set the display to be
   permanently on.

> FWIW, this seems to be the relevant bug:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579430
> 
> (see comment #31)

This  covers  gnome-screensaver.  Is  this  also  relevant  for  the
display-idle-sleep time? From a users point of view I would say that
a screensaver and power management are two different things.

Marco