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I installed Debian 8 with Gnome desktop, and I found out the maximum time-out is 1 hour.
I need at least 2 hours before sleep.
I installed Cinnamon and tried with it, but no difference.
I also tried with dconf editor. I could set a bigger value for timeout,but it didn't have any effect.
What could be wrong and how to find out?
Maybe some other power manager? Which?
I dumped Kubuntu (still installed as a dual boot) and whit it worked.
(But tuxguitar didn't work with KDE - at least with Kubuntu/KDE, and I didn't like Kubuntu anyway.)
And (whether as a user or as a root):
Code:
a@jaa-debian:~$ gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon
bash: gnome-power-manager: command not found
jaa@jaa-debian:~$ man gnome-power-manager
No manual entry for gnome-power-manager
jaa@jaa-debian:~$
but
Code:
jaa@jaa-debian:~$ apt list gnome-power-manager
Listing... Done
gnome-power-manager/stable,now 3.14.1-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
However, if, in the power menu, I click "suspend", the machine goes to sleep and wakes up on key press fine.
Do they work with Gnome or Cinnamon without extensive diddling?
I don't know, I don't use either. My systems run a mix of LXQt and KDE applications on top of the i3 WM and I had no problems so far with those power managers. The only reason for me to switch from xfce4-power-manager to lxqt-powermanagement is that xfce4-power-manager lacks the option to actually shut down a system after the specified idle time (which can be 2h and above), it only supports suspend and hibernate, while lxqt-powermanagement supports that.
xfce4-power-manager works, and the delay can be set to 'never' or 15 minutes to 5 hours, 50 minutes.
And it's there in the Debian repo (lxqt-powermanagement wasn't).
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