Power Management settings

[Silpheed2K]

What are the default settings for power management?
I've messed with it a little and I noticed my screen doesnt lock when I leave my computer inactive for a certain period of time.
Also the 2 options in the Power Management."
"Put computer to sleep" actually puts the whole computer to sleep? or did the person who wrote that actually mean something else? (Yes I know it looks self-explanatory but I'm noticing the behaviour isn't doing what I'm expecting)
Same goes for "Put display to sleep"... just a little confused.

Anybody know what's up? (yeah i know about the power management bug as well)

[Villiam]

There are some useful resources for power management in Fedora over here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ecology-HOWTO/...anagement.html
It will help you in setting some power management settings.

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[bbfuller]

Hello Silpheed2K

I assume you are talking about Gnome as it has a settings built in that seem to have an effect in KDE over and above what is set in the KDE Power Management module.

In Gnome, System - Preferences - Screensaver.

Regard the computer as idle after 5 minutes.
"Activate screensaver when computer is idle" and "Lock screen when screensaver is active" both ticked.
Default screensaver seems to be blank screen.

That appears to be on a user by user basis.

The Power Management off that same screen then has separate options for "Put display to sleep when inactive for" when running on battery or mains power. The former is 5 minutes, the latter 30 minutes.

[Silpheed2K]

Why how silly. I didn't have my screensaver activated.
Thanks you all that really helped because I was wondering what was going on. (must have deactivated it while searching for that bug that causes random blackouts of your screen)