Hello,
Yesterday I loaded Fedora16/KDE and went into SYSTEM SETTINGS, POWER MGT, POWER PROFILES, and turned off SCREEN ENERGY SAVING. That worked for yesterday. Then I turned off the computer and went to bed. This morning I turned it back on and now it blanks out after about a minute of inactivity and is driving me crazy. How do I permanently set that?

P.S. I found screen saver settings by searching for screen saver (two words) ... START AUTOMATICALLY was not checked. How do I find the screen saver (besides using the search function)? I've looked at the various applications and can't find it. I did however find screensaver (one word) in APPLICATION -> SETTINGS, which appears to be a different screensaver. When I clicked it I got the error "does not appear to be running." Confused.

Thanks in advance.

Which version of KDE are you using?

4.7.4

In any KDE application, open the Help menu > About KDE.

4.7.4

If you check the Power Profiles, are you able to get it to redisable the Power Saving options for the screen?

I went to POWER PROFILES.
SCREEN ENERGY SAVING is not checked.
Is there something else I need to check?

If you turn it on, then back off does it behave once again as expected?

It seems to be working now ... not sure why ... I never messed with that option. Is that the only place to go for screen saver setting?

As far as I am aware - I suspect there might be a bug in the configuration reading - but the control module causes KDE Power Management to disable this behaviour through a different manner (and it updates the configuration file as well - hence why it shows it as disabled).

If you logout and log back in does the unwanted behaviour return?

I rebooted the computer and the behavior has not returned. Bummer cause I don't know how I fixed it

Okay. If this issue recurs, I suggest reposting on this thread so further investigating can be done.