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I need to make it so the screen never goes into powersaver mode...

Upon updating from 10.10 to 11.04 on two different PCs (one Dell tower, one Toshiba laptop), the display now goes into power-saving mode after ??? minutes although the power option is set to "Never". In both cases I have the screensaver set to activate at 10 minutes using GLTEXT which is a floating editable text string. The screensaver kicks in just fine but at some point the screen goes black until a key is pressed or mouse is jiggled. Screensaver comes on briefly then the desktop comes up, so the PC is not itself powering down, just the display. Power settings have been set to "Never" and then as default under the administrator-level account, and the PC normally runs under a limited-authority public user profile. Whether run under the admin or under the public profiles, the display eventually powers down. There is no powersaver in the BIOS of either PC.

I'm thinking it's a bug in 11.04, but has anyone got any idea how I can alleviate this otherwise?

Thanks a mil.

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Happens to me as well with 11.04 on a ThinkPad T410. – EndangeredMassa Jul 22 '11 at 15:39
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Check your screensaver settings. I had the same problem, then realized that my screensaver was set to 5 minutes for blank screen.

Just search your system (Windows Key or the Applications icon on the Unity left sidebar) for Screensaver. In the settings, uncheck "Activate screensaver when computer idle."

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