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Setting the Backlight Dim Timeout in Jaunty

From a bug posting:

I've been fighting this with Hardy and the references here made me dig a bit more and found this:

$ gconftool-2 -Tg /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_time 30 int

This basically tells GPM that "idle" means 30 seconds. So, I did this:

$ gconftool-2 -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_time 120 -t int

If my calculations are correct, that should increase the delay before the screen dims down to 2 minutes.

As for what "activity" means, I have found that moving the mouse and typing equally triggers GPM to bring up full brightness.

I think a long term solution to this issue is to put a slider into Power Management Preferences screen to allow this to be customized without tinkering with gconf. I always saw people's iBooks dimming down to save power and I'm glad it is now supported here -- just needs to be fleshed out a bit more.

Couldn't agree more with the RFE in the last para.

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