I followed the steps in the linked dim screen when user is idle help article, but to no avail. While that is probably my own fault for misunderstanding what I’m supposed to do here, I’m not even sure this would restore the old behaviour if it worked (as I assume even screen brightness of 0 is not the same as screen off?)
I would like to restore the previous behaviour of GNOME whereby the screen would go to sleep after whatever “screen blank” time is set in the settings menu.
Is there a way to simply restore the old behaviour?
My inxi output below
Details
System:
Kernel: 6.1.159-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=ca10f937-256d-467a-ab65-b511f6941d48 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME v: 49.2 tk: GTK v: 3.24.51 wm: gnome-shell
tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 49.2 Distro: Manjaro
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook 2560p v: A0001D02
serial: Chassis: type: 10 serial:
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 162B v: KBC Version 04.24
serial: part-nu: XB208AV uuid:
Firmware: BIOS vendor: Hewlett-Packard v: 68SSU Ver. F.50 date: 08/04/2014
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 39.7 Wh (98.8%) condition: 40.2/40.2 Wh (100%)
volts: 12.3 min: 10.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
serial: charging: status: not charging cycles: N/A
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial:
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750
serial: charge: 100% rechargeable: yes status: full
Memory:
System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.67 GiB used: 3.35 GiB (43.7%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 8 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 4 GiB note: est.
Device-1: Bottom-Slot 1(top) type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 4 GiB
speed: 1333 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Samsung part-no: M471B5273DH0-CH9 serial:
Device-2: Bottom-Slot 2(under) type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 4 GiB
speed: 1333 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Samsung part-no: M471B5273DH0-CH9 serial:
PCI Slots:
Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-2620M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
gen: core 2 level: v2 built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6
model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 2 cores: 2 threads: 4 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB
desc: 2x256 KiB L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 904 min/max: 800/3400 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: schedutil cores: 1: 904 2: 904 3: 904 4: 904 bogomips: 21557
Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb est flush_l1d
fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibpb_exit_to_user ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear
mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good sep smx ssbd
sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc tsc_deadline_timer
vme x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and \__user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsa status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-6 code: Sandybridge
process: Intel 32nm built: 2011 ports: active: DP-2 off: LVDS-1
empty: DP-1, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0126
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HP Universal Camera driver: uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-1.4:5
chip-ID: 1bcf:2888 class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: Dell P2419H serial: built: 2020
res: 1920x1080 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.655 y: 0.337 green:
x: 0.322 y: 0.612 blue: x: 0.153 y: 0.059 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329
size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080, 1600x900, 1280x1024, 1152x864, 1024x768, 800x600,
640x480, 720x400
Monitor-2: LVDS-1 model: Seiko Epson 0x4149 built: 2011 res: 1366x768
dpi: 124 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red: x: 0.600 y: 0.341 green: x: 0.310 y: 0.561
blue: x: 0.149 y: 0.129 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329
size: 292x174mm (11.5x6.85") diag: 328mm (12.9") ratio: 15:9, 16:9
modes: 1366x768
EDID-Warnings: 1: parse_edid: unknown flag 2
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus platforms: device: 0 drv: crocus
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: crocus wayland:
drv: crocus x11: drv: crocus
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.3.1-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB
GT2) device-ID: 8086:0126 memory: 1.46 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Thesycon System & Consulting GmbH D10s driver: snd-usb-audio
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-1.2:3
chip-ID: 152a:8750 class-ID: fe01
API: ALSA v: k6.1.159-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 4060 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac:
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 \[Taylor Peak\] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 24:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:0085 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac:
Device-3: TP-Link Archer T9UH v1 \[Realtek RTL8814AU\] driver: rtl8814au
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-1.3.4:7
chip-ID: 2357:0106 class-ID: 0000 serial:
IF: wlp0s29u1u3u4 state: up mac:
IP v4: type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast:
IP v6: type: noprefixroute scope: link
Info: services: mld, NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
WAN IP:
Bluetooth:
Device-1: HP Broadcom 2070 Bluetooth Combo driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 2-1.6:8
chip-ID: 03f0:231d class-ID: fe01
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 6 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 48.74 GiB (20.4%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 PRO Series
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: fw-rev: 5B0Q scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp model: CDDVDW TS-U633J rev: HH01
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 68.79 GiB size: 67.16 GiB (97.63%) used: 48.74 GiB (72.6%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
uuid: ca10f937-256d-467a-ab65-b511f6941d48
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4 GiB used: 324 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 350 MiB fs: ntfs label: System Reserved
uuid: E87C3DB07C3D7B00
ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 167.59 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 9284413B844122D9
ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 816 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 34683F0B683ECB7E
ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 1 KiB fs:
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-5: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 976 MiB fs: swap label: N/A
uuid: d69eb17a-f12a-4b2c-9c02-949673b3e351
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-1.2:3 info: Thesycon System & Consulting GmbH D10s type: audio
driver: snd-usb-audio interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 152a:8750 class-ID: fe01
Hub-5: 2-1.3:4 info: Realtek 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 0bda:5409
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-1.3.1:6 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver
type: keyboard,mouse,HID driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 98mA
chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 2-1.3.4:7 info: TP-Link Archer T9UH v1 \[Realtek RTL8814AU\]
type: Network driver: rtl8814au interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA
chip-ID: 2357:0106 class-ID: 0000 serial:
Device-3: 2-1.4:5 info: Sunplus Innovation HP Universal Camera type: video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA chip-ID: 1bcf:2888 class-ID: 0e02
Device-4: 2-1.6:8 info: HP Broadcom 2070 Bluetooth Combo type: bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1
mode: 1.1 chip-ID: 03f0:231d class-ID: fe01
Device-5: 2-1.8:9 info: Alcor Micro AU9540 Smartcard Reader
type: smart card driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 50mA
chip-ID: 058f:9540 class-ID: 0b00
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 1461 pm: pacman pkgs: 1444 libs: 449 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 8 pm: snap pkgs: 9
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://mirror.23m.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.netcologne.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
4: https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
5: https://ftp.free.org/mirrors/repo.manjaro.org/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
6: https://mirror.bouwhuis.network/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
7: https://ftpmirror1.infania.net/mirror/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
8: https://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 231
1: cpu: 6.3% command: exe pid: 133167 mem: 345.5 MiB (4.3%)
2: cpu: 1.6% command: firefox pid: 133335 mem: 705.4 MiB (8.9%)
3: cpu: 0.8% command: gnome-shell pid: 131903 mem: 375.7 MiB (4.7%)
4: cpu: 0.8% command: exe pid: 133278 mem: 64.5 MiB (0.8%)
5: cpu: 0.5% command: firefox pid: 133658 mem: 315.9 MiB (4.0%)
Memory top: 5 of 231
1: mem: 705.4 MiB (8.9%) command: firefox pid: 133335 cpu: 1.6%
2: mem: 375.7 MiB (4.7%) command: gnome-shell pid: 131903 cpu: 0.8%
3: mem: 350.6 MiB (4.4%) command: firefox pid: 133608 cpu: 0.2%
4: mem: 345.5 MiB (4.3%) command: exe pid: 133167 cpu: 6.3%
5: mem: 326.3 MiB (4.1%) command: tidal-hifi pid: 132955 cpu: 0.4%
Info:
Processes: 231 Power: uptime: 1d 20h 38m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: deep avail: s2idle wakeups: 4 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown,
reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 3.06 GiB services: gsd-power,upowerd
Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 21.1.6 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: fish v: 4.2.1 default: Bash
v: 5.3.9 running-in: guake inxi: 3.3.40
Mod edit:- General tidy for context. Added URL referred to by OP. No charge.
