Bug 361974

Summary:	Power saving settings for monitor have no effect
Product:	[Unmaintained] Powerdevil	Reporter:	Guido Schmidt <guido>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Development Mailing List <plasma-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.6.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Guido Schmidt 2016-04-19 19:55:24 UTC

This is a desktop PC with OpenSUSE 13.2 (x86_64).

Since KDE 5.6 my monitor turns off (I guess an energy saving mode) after a couple of minutes even though I have this setting disabled in systemsettings5 like I always had. (I would give you the exact name of this setting but even though I set System Settings to run in english it shows most words in my german - maybe another bug. The german name is: Energiesparmodus - Bildschirm abdunkeln)

This does not happen when I am logged into an XFCE session.
BTW this is the only session on this machine.

I tried changing the setting by enabling it and setting the time-out to 1 minute. This also does not have any effect.

So it looks like KDE is not reading/finding the setting and using a default?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to a KDE 5 session.
2. Make sure the energy/power setting for turning off the moniter after a configurable time is turned off.
3. Wait a little, i.e. watch a movie in full screen mode.

Actual Results:  
Screen turns black and monitor LED indicates a power saving mode.

Expected Results:  
Screens stays on.

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2022-10-20 23:54:35 UTC

Thank you for reporting this bug in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "CONFIRMED" when replying. Thank you!

Comment 2 Guido Schmidt 2022-10-21 08:26:30 UTC

Barely remember this one. No, it's working now. Thanks!