Bug 18597

Summary:	support for the DPMS X extension missing
Product:	kdm	Reporter:	sivasubraj
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alpeterson, info
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0pre
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description sivasubraj 2001-01-15 07:34:33 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package: kcontrol
Version: v.2.0pre (KDE 2)
Severity: wishlist
Installed from: Linux 2.2.17-21mdksmp i686 (Mandrake_7_2)

Please include the Energy_saving control panel for the kde login screen. 
The Energy is OK for the users 
but it's not very clear for the root how to modify the monitor energy 
settings for when the monitor displays the Login...

When the computer is in a logged mode 
the energy settings work properly 
but when it is not logged the monitor never blanks out!

Thanks
Siva

(submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Aaron Peterson 2004-03-28 15:32:19 UTC

I litterally spent a couple weeks looking for this... (well about 12 hours searching) then finally asked the right person who said 

option "DPMS"
display power management signaling...

grrrr

There needs to be a tool tip in the screen saver section that explains how to enable dpms and have the screen blanking option greyed out if the screen doesn't support it.

Comment 2 Aaron Peterson 2004-05-11 12:58:31 UTC

One must enable DPMS in their XF86Config file.
We need to tell people to do that from the energy control pannel... and from display properties.

I must have been tired when I wrote my last post to this bug.

Comment 3 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-10-06 22:10:56 UTC

*** Bug 253409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 20:20:51 UTC

KDM is unmaintained and not used in KDE Plasma 5.

SDDM is the login manager used in KDE Plasma 5. If you still have this same issue with SDDM, please file an issue on the SDDM bugtracker (after doing a search for existing issues first!): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/