Screen Sleep Download
Katarina Pisha
Arch puts my monitor to 'sleep', or 'blanks' or suspends by default, in 20 minutes or so. It ihappens even without X installed. Where or how do I tweak it to never go to sleep?
I have tried
xset s off
as well as disabling DPMS in xorg.
Couldn't find anything in the wiki pertaining to this exactly.
Hmmm...Even from a base install with just command line, on every machine I install Arch on, the monitor goes to sleep, or to a black screen after 15 or 20 minutes...pressing a key wakes it right back up again, but I want to disable this completely.
Any other thoughts?
In my case the situation is exactly the opposite: I would like the monitor to go off after 15 minutes of idleing, but I don;t know how to do this. Xscreensaver is set to go on after 10 minutes, but the monitor never goes on standby.
I've got the same problem, I turn my screensaver off (killall gnome-screensaver) and disable dpms (xset -dpms) and still my screen goes blank... Really annoying when you're trying to watch a movie from your bed or sofa...
I'm now running a java app which uses the Robot class to move my mouse a pixel every ten minutes as a workaround, but a real solution would be nice.
I'm looking for a little help on how to stop your computer going to sleep after about 60 seconds after you lock your screen. It just keeps going to black to quick for a lot of users likings, which are teachers. So I was wondering is there a setting I can setup with Intune to make this stop happening.
When I wake up my screens after they go to sleep (the computer itself is not sleeping), all of my windows move to a single screen. How can I fix this in Windows 10? This answer [1] doesn't work. There's another answer [2] that applies to pre-Windows 10. I have a new Nvidia GPU. I have 3 monitors, 2x Display Port and 1x HDMI.
I think it may be a bug regarding the use of Display Port in Windows.
When a monitor connected via Display Port goes to sleep, windows treat it almost like it was physically disconnected.
Even if you're only using one monitor that leads to problems: program windows get moved and resized, some get bugged, and such.
I have 6 monitors and I was having this issue. Based on info about the regkey location Vinícius M, I did some fiddling and I seem to be having luck so far with deleting all the config profiles (I had like 10-15 of them) under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\Configuration then restarting my pc. Then I rearranged my screens and it seems to be working. I think what was happening was that the Display port wouldn't register in time for waking up, and it was only detecting 3 of the monitors, and choosing one of the configuration profiles that it thought it matched. Now I only have the one 6 monitor configuration in the reg key so it seems to be behaving.
I have a dell laptop that i just installed Ubuntu server 18.04 LTS on, and that i'm using as a Plex / TVHeadend server. I'd like to stop the laptop from going to sleep when the lid/laptop screen is closed, but still allow the screen to shut off.
The only problem is that now the screen never shuts off when the lid is closed. Since this will be left running 24/7, i'd like the screen to shut off so as not to generate extra heat and save on power
Currently, my workaround is to set blank screen to some time interval, and then just shut my computer lid (with the same HandLidSwitch=ignore setting), then let time pass until it auto-blanks the screen by itself. However this isn't exactly convenient and prevents you from having your own settings for how long screen blanking takes (for example, I prefer that my screen never blanks during idle usage - not compatible with this workaround).
Overall, Ubuntu 18.04's settings for sleeping your computer / blanking the screen seem very cumbersome... there doesn't seem to me to be a way to manually suspend / sleep my computer if I've changed the lid-close functionality, for example.
Problem: I can get it to work but when try to turn on device it does strange things, like don't like to return, or if my apps is in front, automatically goes to sleep just after pressing on button. This looks more like a tip or workaround than normal solution.
Can anyone tell me any good method to send device to sleep or turn screen off that can run without problems? It sound rare to me that a simple functionality like this has not a good way to use it (or at lest well documented)
I agree with copper, it should go to sleep and save some battery life, and have it set to wake up by a wrist turn or tap like fitbit. there really is no reason for it to stay on all day draining battery unless your in activity mode.
This is sadly one of the disadvantages of a touchscreen watch. My Fitbit had the same problem, just because it turns off automatically doesn't mean it doesn't instantly do "odd stuff" when it detects touches.
The camera settings can provide various set ups. You can opt to switch the rear screen off permanently and just use viewfinder. The alternative (and probably more common) set up is to have the rear screen switched on but for the screen to blank out when you move your eye up to the viewfinder. Sometimes the screen blanks out intermittently as you are walikng along if your hand or arm moves over the viewfinder.The duration which the screen stays on for before going to sleep can be adjusted down to 10 seconds and the next shortest time is 1 minute. Finally it is possible for you to customise one of the buttons to manually turn the rear screen off, however the sleep function still operates in the background and if you move your hand across the viewfinder the screen will come on again (because the sleep time has not elapsed).
With the newer larger battery on the A7III I have not been as concious regarding the display staying on for longer. I find the 10 seconds a bit annoying when setting up for a shot sometimes, so I have it on one minute. Ideally I wish there was a 30 second setting because sometimes one minute seems too long. I am sure that I read that the viewfinder soaks up more juice than the rear LCD panel though.? There is sometimes a very faint audible click as the sleep mode kicks in. I sometimes find myself holding the camera steady until sleep mode occurs.
...if you also have the Finder/Monitor set to Auto (which enables you to use the EVF when you bring it to your eye) anything that passes in front of the EVF sensor will activate it - your hand, a piece of clothing, even just carrying it against your chest or on your side, slung over your shoulder - and prevent the camera from entering sleep mode. You will need to hold the camera away from anything that would trigger the EVF for the full 10 (or whatever) seconds, until the screen blanks out.
Regarding the turning the camera off, certainly a possible solution, but I recall reading somewhere that if you do this constantly, you could risk damaging / breaking / wearing out the on/off switch. I can't really comment on this, since it hasn't happened to me, but it did make me think, knowing that anything mechanical can eventually wear out or break. So, if I know I'm not going to shoot for a while, I'll turn the camera off. But if I'm out, I don't continuously turn the camera on and off, preferring to use the sleep setting instead.
I think it would be a great addition to have full control of the house/check it's status from our bedroom but one concern I have is that when we sleep, there will be a bright glow of the tablet shining in the room. Is it possible to have the screen sleep or go blank between certain hours and only wake once there is motion?
Fully has a wake/sleep option in the settings that works great for this. At the "sleep" time, the screen turns off completely. The only down side is if you are using a Fire tablet... when the "wake" timer hits, it goes to the lock screen, not your actiontiles panel. A simple swipe up unlocks the screen and loads your panel though. Other than that, it's prefect.
I have a system with F35 and an nvidia Geforce 1050 Ti that I keep fully updated with the nvidia 510 drivers and have never had an issue. I do not, however, allow it to sleep or suspend. It is always running except for the occasional reboots when software is updated.
Are you only sleeping or hibernating? Sleeping keeps the config in RAM where hibernation requires a physical swap device for storage and recovery. There also may be an entry in the grub kernel command line that says something like resume=UUID where the UUID is the swap device used to resume (needed for hibernation recovery).
I fixed that in your post above.
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For information, I had the same issue until I plug another screen on HDMI port.
When I turn the PC in locked mode or sleep mode the both screen turn black and when I wake up the PC they all turn on. If I do the same without the second screen connected (HDMI) the laptop screen never come back. But in that state if i connect the HDMI port, the laptop come back and i can unplug the HDMI screen.
Hope it helps