[SOLVED]Monitor keeps locking

[paul1149]

Hi guys,


I'm running 2.4 x64. The monitor keeps going into standby and locking me out. I have the unit to Sleep at 75 min, and the monitor display to sleep at 60 min, with "Switch off display" at 50 min.


Under Extended I have sleep mode set to Suspend, and monitor sleep mode set to Standby. Lock is checked.


I have the screensaver turned off. When I bring up the screensaver prefs, I get that the daemon is not running error. On the Advanced tab I have Power management enabled, with Standby after 120, Suspend after 120, and off after 240. But I've also tried turning off Power Management.


The screen is locking after maybe 15 minutes tops. I would like to use this function, but would rather delete it than fight it like this.


Thanks.

[Valtam]

Suspend is unreliable, I wouldn't use this feature.

[paul1149]

Ok, I've switched the computer to hibernate, and will see how that goes. The monitor is locking up before the Suspend is invoked, but perhaps a bug affects it anyway? Thanks.

[Valtam]

Suspend and hibernate to this day, are troublesome on Ubuntu based distros. Just set it to lock screen on timeout, this will be very low power anyway.

[paul1149]

I'm not quite clear on what you mean. I've just now moved the computer and monitor sliders back to "never" on the AC tab. I'm on a tower, so no battery tab. On the Extended tab I have to spec either suspend or hibernate, or standby or suspend, respectively. I have computer hibernate and monitor standby. And I've checked Lock screen. Guess I'll just watch it and see. Been too busy this evening to give it a chance to lock. Thanks.

[Valtam]

To be clear, don't use suspend or hibernate, or standby or suspend. Just set it to lock screen.

[paul1149]

That's what I thought you meant, but I don't see how it's possible. I have radio buttons I'm dealing with. It's one or the other, unless there's a master setting that shuts them off:

[Valtam]

Untick the box on that screenshot, then it won't be used.

[paul1149]

Ok. That I think I can do.

Thanks!

[paul1149]

I must have a corruption problem here. Even unchecking that box did nothing. I fried an egg in the kitchen, took maybe 10 minutes max, and came back to a locked screen. The setting is still unchecked.