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

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

Reuben:

The screen shield is activated when the session becomes "idle".
Lengthen the idle-delay and see what happens.
A very long time is as good as disabling it.

Norman

On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 22:50 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 25 April 2013 22:41, Reuben Thomas <rrt sc3d org> wrote:
>         On 25 April 2013 22:40, Norman L. Smith <nls1729 gmail com>
>         wrote:
>         
>                 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.
>         
>         
>         Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I don't see what any of these
>         have to do with the screen shield.
>         
>
>
> It occurs to me that maybe I'm unclear what I want: "screen shield"
> is, as I understand it, the name for the curtain that appears when you
> reactivate a screen that has switched off owing to being idle. In
> order to get back to your session, you have to lift the curtain. I
> find this a pain. In GNOME 3.6, it doesn't occur if you switch screen
> locking off, but in GNOME 3.8 it does. Bastien Nocera explains that
> this is intentional here:
>
> http://www.hadess.net/2013/02/power-management-in-gnome-38.html
>
>
> I would like to disable the screen shield, so I don't have to perform
> an extra action when reactivating a screen that has switched off.
>
>
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