[SOLVED] Inevitable suspend in 10 minutes

Lixt · 11-24-2011, 12:19 AM

Computer suspends in 10 minutes of inactivity no matter if Configure Desktop --> Power Management --> Power Profiles --> Suspend Session is checked or not. No matter what time is set there.
Does anyone have this problem? Is it a bug? I'll hardly need the suspend feature at all.

jlinkels · 11-24-2011, 01:00 AM

Check this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...set+kde+screen

jlinkels

Lixt · 11-24-2011, 08:49 AM

I've read that thread, but I don't have the /etc/X11/Xsession.d. folder. I've got xorg.conf, though.
Where is it better to put the following?

Code:

xset -dpms s off

jlinkels · 11-24-2011, 10:02 AM

Xsession and xorg don't have a relationship in that sense.

First try that command on the command line and see if it resolves your problem.

If it does, you can create the /etc/X11/xsession.d folder, and create a script file which executes the command. Name the script 95dpms-set and the contents is:

Code:

#! /bin/bash
xset -dpms s off

If that doesn't work, you can also put this command xset -dpms s off in /etc/rc.local and it will be run at startup. That is, in many distributions. I don't know how your distro handles this, but it is easy to google.

jlinkels

Lixt · 11-25-2011, 06:59 AM

It seems that this method works, but only one time. After the second 10 minutes period of inactivity computer suspends. A screensaver is set to run in 4 minutes of inactivity. I don't know if it's related.
The counterpart of /etc/rc in openSUSE is possibly /etc/init.d/after.local.

Code:

# /etc/init.d/after.local
#
# script with local commands to be executed from init after all scripts
# of a runlevel have been executed.
#
# Here you should add things, that should happen directly after
# runlevel has been reached.  Common environment
# variables for this are:
#  RUNLEVEL  -- The current system runlevel.
#  PREVLEVEL -- The previous runlevel (useful after a runlevel switch).

Lixt · 11-28-2011, 04:51 AM

Finally, I used the following command to change the suspend time to 1 hour.

Code:

xset dpms 3600 3600 3600

It can be placed ether in:
Configure Desktop --> Startup and Shutdown --> Autostart --> Add Programm
or in:
/home/username/.kde4/Autostart/filename

LloydRice · 12-21-2011, 09:07 PM

Running Debian Squeeze on a Gateway SX-2841.
I thought I would add my experience to this 'solved' thread because the thread did not quite answer my needs. So I explored. Here is what I found ..

Code:

xset -dpms

made no difference. The problem was not solved until I set

Code:

xset s off

This sets the Screen Saver Timeout to 0. It seems that the dpms status was not related. (I do not understand why, but that's what I found.) As for a place to put the command, I chose to add a line to '.bashrc'. That would not be a good solution for someone who runs a long time without ever starting a terminal window. But in my case, I spend most of the time with the terminal up. So it works.
Thanks to everyone for the help solving this nagging issue.