What is "DimDisplay" and why is KDE demanding it?

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:15:30 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 29/07/13 19:07, Duncan wrote:
> > Nikos Chantziaras posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:41:46 +0300 as 
excerpted:
> >> In KDE 4.11 (since the first beta, currently on 4.10.97), every time I
> >> 
> >> login I get an error message:
> >>     The profile AC tried to activate DimDisplay, a non existent
> >>     action.
> >>     This is usually due to an installation problem or to a
> >>     configuration
> >>     problem.
> >> 
> >> I get this message every time, in a weird box at the top of the 
screen:
> >>     http://13o.imghost.us/NM/power_bug.png
> >> 
> >> Any hints on how to stop that from happening?
> > 
> > Have you tried setting up a fresh user (or temporarily moving all of
> > your normal user config, including ~/.kde and ~/.config, elsewhere)
> > and seeing if the problem exists there?  That would allow you to tell
> > whether it's in the existing user config or not.
> > 
> > An educated guess is that the message is from powerdevil, the kde
> > laptop
> > power management app.  I don't have it installed here, but at least
> > solid (part of the kde hardware management system) apparently had some
> > major changes for 4.11, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the
> > existing powerdevil power profiles no longer functioned, triggering a
> > message such as the above depending on what your specific user config
> > was previous to the upgrade.
> 
> It also happens when creating a new user, with an empty home directory.
>   So it's not an old config issue.

This:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1301360

suggests:

Just delete the Section

[AC][DimDisplay]
idleTime=240000

in .kde4/share/config/powermanagementprofilesrc and its gone



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