https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479195
Bug ID: 479195
Summary: Displays should be able to suspend if the session is
manually locked, even when inhibited
Classification: Plasma
Product: Powerdevil
Version: 5.27.8
Platform: Arch Linux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: eevee.kdeb...@veekun.com
CC: m...@ratijas.tk, natalie_clar...@yahoo.de
Target Milestone: ---
On multiple occasions I've locked my desktop for the night, gone to bed, and
awoken in the morning to find that my monitors have been awake the entire time.
Even `xset dpms force suspend` doesn't actually work; my displays will
suspend, but then come back on moments later. (I prefer not to turn them
completely off because that has historically confused kwin and scattered all of
my windows to the four winds.)
This has always turned out to be due to some software (that I left running and
forgot about) having a surprise feature of, as the frequent culprit SDL calls
it, inhibiting the screen saver. Which is very frustrating if you aren't aware
that that's a freedesktop capability, let me tell you. :)
Anyway, it seems to me that if I /manually/ lock my session, there's no reason
to also prevent my displays from sleeping -- whatever might be on the screen, I
can't see it anyway!
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Using X.
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