Comment 15 for bug 199522

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 14:59 +0000, Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> I actually wondered about that but my only other experience with a
> computer dimming when idle is OSX and as far as I can tell it isn't that
> smart. Good to know Ubuntu is smarter. Thanks for the effort. Out of
> curiosity, are the adjustments to the timing permanent or session based?
> In other words, if I catch it too many times and it increases the time,
> will that new length be permanent or does it reset the next time I boot?

Well, this isn't something new, it's actually been there for a while --
I think that idle dimming just didn't work well enough for people to
notice :)

Basically what it does is look at the time you were idle. If it was
less than 10 seconds, it doubles the wait time. When you leave it idle
for two minutes then it resets back to the original value.

Also, I want to give credit where it is due; this isn't my feature, it
is a feature of the upstream GNOME Power Manager.