As it stands, there is no obvious way to prevent automatic display blanking on the GNOME lock screen. There are several problems with this:
UX. I, for one, often lock the screen throughout the day, and expect it to always stay on. Desktop monitors may take a noticeable amount of time to wake up, which, in a manner of speaking, breaks the flow.
Risk of premature hardware failure. Frequent backlight cycling is unlikely to be good for a monitor in the long run, possibly shortening its lifespan, and (ultimately) contributing to e-waste.
Side effects. The last time I checked, waking up the monitor would cause issues with proprietary NVIDIA drivers, making fullscreen applications flicker, effectively rendering them unusable until a reboot.
As such, I believe that it should be configurable. Perhaps, a dedicated option could be added to the settings, or it could just inherit the global screen-blanking preference set by the user (e.g., "15 minutes" or "Never").
Hi @hasshu ! This type of UX detail is best handled upstream. If you want to take your issue further, I'd suggest reporting it against gnome-control-center.
Metadata Update from @aday: - Issue close_status updated to: Deferred to upstream - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
Hi, @aday. There is a relevant open issue under gnome-settings-daemon (I commented there as well). Unfortunately, there were no updates in a while, so I decided to try my luck downstream. It would be great if you guys looked into it.
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