Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
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Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
I get the impression i'm missing something stupidly obvious, but my laptop screen dims after 10 seconds on battery power and I can't find an option within GNOME to increase that time?
Found an option to toggle screen dimming on/off, but I still want the screen to dim, just not after 10 seconds.
Help much appreciated.
Found an option to toggle screen dimming on/off, but I still want the screen to dim, just not after 10 seconds.
Help much appreciated.
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
Check under "Power" and "Screen" entries under settings. Don't have Mint on laptop, so I can't be more precise.
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
I didn't find anything in those two wich would increase/decrease screen dimming...
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
Go to system settings/screen (lock), disable 'dim screen'. No idea how you can increase the time of 10 seconds default.humturtle39 wrote:I get the impression i'm missing something stupidly obvious, but my laptop screen dims after 10 seconds on battery power and I can't find an option within GNOME to increase that time?
Found an option to toggle screen dimming on/off, but I still want the screen to dim, just not after 10 seconds.
Help much appreciated.
Or in a terminal, start 'gnome-control-center screen'
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
Try the following command in the terminal:
source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/98184/in ... im-timeout
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gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-time 60
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Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
Unfortunately, this no longer works with Mint 13: "No such schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power'"
Anybody know how to change the idle time in Mint 13?
TIA
Anybody know how to change the idle time in Mint 13?
TIA
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Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
I forgot to mention that I'm running the Mate edition of Maya.
Anyway, I found the solution:
In your home directory ~/.mateconf/apps/mate-power-manager/backlight/%mateconf.xml insert the following entry:
<entry name="idle_dim_time" mtime="xxxxxxx" type="int" value="300"/>
Set "xxxxx" to the same mtime as the other entries in the file. The time is in seconds, so my setting of "300" equates to 5 minutes.
Logout and login again.
Anyway, I found the solution:
In your home directory ~/.mateconf/apps/mate-power-manager/backlight/%mateconf.xml insert the following entry:
<entry name="idle_dim_time" mtime="xxxxxxx" type="int" value="300"/>
Set "xxxxx" to the same mtime as the other entries in the file. The time is in seconds, so my setting of "300" equates to 5 minutes.
Logout and login again.
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
Heres what to do: Go to:
Menu
Control Centre (this is under Systems)
Screen Saver
all screen saver tools are there, you can adjust the time out up to 2 hours or take the dimmer off altogether.
Menu
Control Centre (this is under Systems)
Screen Saver
all screen saver tools are there, you can adjust the time out up to 2 hours or take the dimmer off altogether.
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
In MATE you can start Mint → System Tools → Configuration Editor or from command line) and go to
There you'll find setting (in seconds) – thi is the setting. Also you can set to dim more or less.
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mateconf-editor
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/apps/mate-power-manager/backlight/
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idle_dim_time
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idle_brightness
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
I had the same issue (with Linux Mint 14) and the method posted by Maug Lee worked perfectly, thanks!
Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
The solution posted by Maug Lee didn't work for me, perhaps because I didn't have exactly the same problem.
I had dual monitors set to a solid blue background. The right-side monitor would dim almost immediately after booting Mint 13 Mate. The left monitor didn't dim. The right monitor was set as the default monitor.
When I switched to one of the supplied desktop background images, the problem went away - no more immediate dimming. But would greatly prefer a solid background.
I had dual monitors set to a solid blue background. The right-side monitor would dim almost immediately after booting Mint 13 Mate. The left monitor didn't dim. The right monitor was set as the default monitor.
When I switched to one of the supplied desktop background images, the problem went away - no more immediate dimming. But would greatly prefer a solid background.
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Re: Increase time before screen dimming - Mint 12
A similar method to that posted by Maug Lee also works in Mint 17 Mate, only the appropriate setting can be found by opening
from the terminal and going to
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dconf-editor
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/org/mate/powermanager/idle-dim-time