So, Peter Hutterer is my new best friend. Peter has found and patched the bug in the X server that was causing the failure of negative transition triggers in XSync. For you and me, that means that XIDLETIME now works as expected, and gnome-session and gnome-power-manager do the right thing. This means no more random blanking when typing.
There’s a pending Fedora 11 update here and a build for rawhide here — it should be tagged for F12alpha, but no promises at this stage.
The important patch for the xserver is here and I urge all distros to cherry-pick this commit into their stable branch, as this affects a lot of users. Hopefully this is the end to the saga of accidental screen blanking.
Whoot!
Awsome
Thanks for alerting other distros!!!
Legendary.
Thanks for blogging about the fix, that too *with* the link to the upstream patch!
hallelujah
Hooray !
Awesome! Thanks for helping to track this down.
Could a new tab be opened in user’s browser of choice when clicked on message in tray icon?
Rewriting long URL to ‘find out more’ is not very nice…