{"id":962,"date":"2013-07-18T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T11:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=962"},"modified":"2013-07-18T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T11:29:06","slug":"change-screen-dimming-timeout-ubuntu-13-04-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/change-screen-dimming-timeout-ubuntu-13-04-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Screen Dimming Timeout on Ubuntu 13.04 Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re running your laptop on battery, Ubuntu dims the screen after a few seconds of inactivity. It annoying and here&#8217;s how to increase the timeout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase Ubuntu screen dimming timeout on your laptop<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get started, open dconf <b>Editor<\/b> from the dash search results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash-300x154.png\" alt=\"dconf editor in unity dash\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Dconf-editor-unity-dash.png 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In next window, navigate to <b>org -> gnome -> settings-daemon -> plugins -> power<\/b>. You&#8217;ll find the key which says &#8220;idle-dim-time&#8221;, change its value to what you want.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/change-idle-time-out.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/change-idle-time-out.jpg\" alt=\"change idle screen timeout\" width=\"400\" height=\"178\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/change-idle-time-out.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/change-idle-time-out-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re running your laptop on battery, Ubuntu dims the screen after a few seconds of inactivity. It annoying and here&#8217;s how to increase the timeout. Objectives: Increase Ubuntu screen dimming timeout on your laptop Enjoy! To get started, open dconf Editor from the dash search results. In next window, navigate to org -> gnome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[152,166,155,250,153],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unity","tag-13-04","tag-linux","tag-screen","tag-timeout","tag-ubuntu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}