Screen goes blank sooner than the settings in Gnome Power Management Preferences

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Issue

  • Screen is blanking after 10-15 minutes although Gnome Screensaver is set to blank the screen after 2 hours, and the Gnome Power Management Preferences is set to 30 minutes.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • GNOME Desktop
  • gnome-screensaver-2.28.3-24.el6_4.1.x86_64

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