Re: Turning off the screen shield in gnome-shell 3.8

["Norman L. Smith" <nls1729 gmail com>]

Reuben:

Take a look at org.gnome.desktop.session.idle-delay with deconf-editor.
If you use a laptop also see org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.

Norman


On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 14:37 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> I would like to disable the screen shield in GNOME 3.8; I don't want
> to discuss the pros and cons of it as an idea here; suffice to say
> that I find it an irritation.
>
>
> So, I first thought to write a shell extension, but I can't find any
> way to get at the relevant objects. After a couple of hours studying
> the source, it seems to me that everything's locked up inside the
> ScreenShield object.
>
>
> As a quick hack, I tried simply stopping the screen shield from being
> patched into the desktop, by commenting out the last line of
> screenShield.js:
>
> Signals.addSignalMethods(ScreenShield.prototype);
>
>
> but this prevented gdm from starting properly. In any case, I would
> rather not have to patch gnome-shell itself.
>
> Can anyone give me a hint on how I might write a shell extension to
> disable the shield?
>
>
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