Michael wrote: > On Friday 6 September 2024 12:04:08 BST Dale wrote: > >> I might add, another odd thing that started after a recent update. When >> I logout of KDE or when first booting and am on the sddm login screen, >> my first monitor powers off. The second monitor stays on and has the >> login screen as does the TV screen. Yet the primary screen turns off. >> At first when we got past the wonky monitor problem, all three would >> stay on and mirror each other. Now it doesn't. >> >> I might add, if I switch to a console, screen one turns back on and all >> three mirror each other. I kinda like that because if I need to do >> something that takes a bit, I don't have to go to the living room to >> turn the TV back on again. > It sounds as if the primary monitor is using DPMS in Xorg, if you're running > X, or some similar energy saving feature. Check SystemSettings > Power > Management > Display and Brightness.
You may be on to something. I have DPMS enabled on my two main monitors but not the TV. That said, I had my monitors set to not turn off. I did that the other day so that they would stay on while I was doing my emerge -e world. I wanted to keep a eye on it in case something failed and the emerge stopped. Should I have DPMS set to on or turn them all off in xorg.conf? I'm thinking on. Thursday a week ago tho, everything turned off when I locked the screen, TV as well. It seems it can turn things off even without DPMS. > Meanwhile back at the ranch, I think my Gkrellm dock panel problem is related > to KDE 6 not identifying the Gkrellm window as a 'dock/panel', probably > because the Gtk2 code is far too old to integrate with Plasma. :-( > > This is bad. It's a sign gkrellm might stop working. I hope someone who can code will update and keep gkrellm alive and going. I'd hate to see that go away. That's a awesome tool that is impossible to replace. I don't know of anything that comes close. Dale :-) :-)
