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Questions tagged [screen-energy-saving]

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Screen Energy Saving not working with KDE Wayland

My desktop uses Kubuntu 24.04, fully updated, with KDE Plasma 5.27.12. About a week ago I decided to give Wayland another try, and this time I found everything to work smoothly, except for the fact ...
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Monitors wake up immediately after energy saving and windows switches to the left-most monitor

I'm going to explain in better detail. I have two monitors: [VGA] [HDMI] HDMI (right monitor) should be the primary monitor, while the VGA the secondary monitor. I have energy saving and lock screen ...
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What keeps waking up my screen?

I have screen energy saving enabled, but my monitors never turn off automatically - even when the screen is locked. I can -briefly- manually turn them off using xset dpms force off, but in a couple of ...
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Gnome does not wake up the monitor anymore on keypress

Since around the middle of October 2020, my Arch Linux machines don't wake up the monitor anymore when I press any key in the Gnome login screen. However the machine itself is woken up, as I see my ...
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Disable energy saving settings completely? HDMI signal lost (DPMS and screensaver already disabled)

On my MX Linux XFCE environment I have the problem that after a certain time without interaction after power on the HDMI signal is lost and can only be retrieved with pressing a keyboard key. I would ...
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Is there a better way than this to force monitor blank/off?

Intending to switch off the display/monitor/screen instantly (and only be reenabled upon keypress) I resort to this solution: a /bin/blankvt script: #!/bin/sh echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/...
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Intel i915 and xbacklight: No outputs have backlight property

When I run xbacklight I get xbacklight No outputs have backlight property I've seen other posts mentions this but I do have a /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight. I can write to the file and this ...
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Gnome3 - set screen energy settings from command line (script)

Is there a way to access, set gnome system-settings from the command-line? I'm specifically interested in a way to set: settings -> energy -> screen off = never settings -> energy -> ...
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Forcing the screen to go blank

I found this answer to make my screen go blank with xset dpms force off. But most of the times it only works for a brief moment and the screen comes back. I never managed to get this to work an ...
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Xserver sets monitor to sleep after 10 minutes

My installation, Ubuntu server 14.04 with just xorg and firefox installed. The server boots up and immediatly starts firefox with the disired webpage in fullscreen mode. After 10 minutes my monitor ...
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How can I reduce my Laptop's power consumption when running Linux?

I just installed Linux on a laptop of mine (it's Lubuntu 15.04 on a Lenovo X201, Core i5 M540, 2GB mem). I'm currently seeing 21580 mW power draw with a couple of apps open (Firefox with a few tabs ...
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Disabling screen blanking in GNOME 3

We are using a Debian 7 machine with the default GNOME 3 installation to display content on an information display. This display needs to remain on until the connected computer is switched off. ...
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"Screen Energy Saving" (in KDE) - how to trigger command when entering and exiting such mode?

I have two commands: one I'd like to execute when computer enters "Screen Energy Saving" mode, another when it exists this state. How to trigger those commands depending on "Screen Energy Saving" ? (...
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