Bug 266194

Summary: please add "disable screensaver" option to powermanagement profiles
Product: [Unmaintained] solid Reporter: Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader+kde>
Component: powermanagementAssignee: Dario Freddi <drf>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: minor CC: afiestas, andresbajotierra, kde, oliver.henshaw
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 4.11   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Daniel Mader 2011-02-13 12:34:46 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

Currently, there is no way of simply turning off the screensaver for certain powermanagement profiles. Since more and more stuff happens within the browser, nothing stops the screensaver from kicking in, even in the Presentation profile (which apparently got lost, btw).

Would be nice to have a simple solution for all the many apps that don't talk to the screensaver...

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Alex Fiestas 2013-03-03 15:53:56 UTC 
We should definitively implement this.
Comment 2 Oliver Henshaw 2013-03-04 16:29:51 UTC 
Firstly, browsers should be inhibiting the screensaver/screen power saving - see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811261 and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=103932

Disabling power management in the battery applet will also inhibit the screenlocker but selecting "Never shutdown the screen" for an activity will not. This is fixable by having the screenlocker ask powerdevil whether it should lock or by having powerdevil inhibit the screenlocker which will in turn inhibit powerdevil.

Mildly tangled interactions like these are why I suspect all policy should be in one process.
Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-02-16 12:31:49 UTC 
Screen saver is now being blocked by a PM inhibition, and most browsers handle that nowadays when eg. watching a movie.