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Display dims when not in use and it turns off when not in use or while watching movies

I have Ubuntu 11.10 and am using it on dell xps laptop now my problem is that Ubuntu does not provide power utility form where I can manage brightness of my screen, when to turn it off, after how much ...
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How can I close the lid on my HP Pavilion g7 running Ubuntu 11.10 without crashing it?

If I close the lid on my computer while it's running, it goes into sleep (hibernation?) mode. When I open back it up, the screen wakes up for a moment, then goes black. The computer is unresponsive ...
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Electric Sheep does not start

Electric Sheep was working on my computer under Ubuntu 11.10 as a screen saver. Suddenly, here was a problem - electricsheep does not download any sheeps and nothing shows. Here is the output of ...
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Console Command to inhibit screensaver

is there any console command to inhibit the screensaver in Ubuntu 11.10? I dont want to have indicators like Caffeine for every function I need. In Gnome 2.x it was something like "gnome-screensaver ...
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why does the screensaver show my desktop before locking? [closed]

I leave my PC on for a while... and then the screensaver kicks in. Cool. So after another while I move my mouse or strike a key or whatever. This shows me the complete desktop, with like all the ...
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Why does my screen not return to full brightness when waking a Lenovo B570 from sleep mode?

I have a Lenovo B570 laptop and have Ubuntu 11.10 installed. My problem is that when the screen is turned off through inactivity (set at 10 minutes in the settings), it is very difficult to reawaken ...
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Screensaver Settings

Hello, world. I recently installed ubuntu 11.10. I had been using 10:10, and did a reinstall to start fresh on this new version. The thing is I encountered myself with more than a few diferences, ...
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System freeze, on exit from screensaver (Unity) [closed]

I have a midrange PC (Intel Core2-Duo 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 1.5TB storage), with latest Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) and Unity (3D). Description: PC does NOT always return control after automatic timeout to ...
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Lock screen when XScreenSaver was installed

I'm another user who dislike the default screen-saver of Oneric. I installed XScreenSaver, but when I want to lock the screen, don't work using CTRL+ALT+L or from the user menu. Suggestions? Thanks.
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Can I replace the XScreenSaver lock dialog with the version from Gnome-Screensaver

Im using Ubuntu 11.10, with XFCE and xscreensaver, the xscreensaver configurator is nice but the unlock dialog is ugly. I tried gnome-screensaver, but it only gives me a blank screen. So, can I ...
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Must close and open laptop lid to recover from screen turn-off on an Acer Aspire 5740

I have an Acer Aspire 5740-5780 laptop with ubuntu 11.10. I don't have the more common problem of the black screen on boot. Rather, under System Settings..., in Screen, under Brightness, with the ...
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Is there any screensaver application in ubuntu 11.10? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I change or install screen savers? I don't found the screensaver after installing ubuntu 11.10... and the new ubuntu is fantastic!
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Caffeine + Xscreensaver = Not Working

Had removed Gnome-screensaver and uses xscreensaver, but Caffeine doesn't seems to work when watching movie using SMPlayer even added both SMPlayer and MPlayer into the activation list. Anyone got ...
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How to override a X86ScreenSaver button? [closed]

I just bind X86ScreenSaver to xset dpms force off and disabled locking but it still locks my session with a password with I don't want. Did I miss something?
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Screen sleeps, but cant be rewoken on an hp nx6310 [closed]

I have a problem with my new ubuntu 11.10 installation. after a few minutes the monitor switches off as it should for power saving, and wont be rewoken. I can actually see very faintly that when I ...
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How can I change my screensaver in Ubuntu 11.10? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I change or install screen savers? I'm a new user of Ubuntu Oneric. Where can I set the configuration of my screensaver? I need to use Xscreensaver? What is the ...