It is probably some app. Possibly in the background. Maybe you need to disable any notifications and stuff like that. My wife's work laptop has Win 11, but it is not stochastic: sometimes the monitor goes to sleep, sometimes it just blacks out but stays turned on, sometimes it doesn't even black out.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:23 AM Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a simple setup with a computer running Ubuntu 24.04, driving two > displays where I'd like to have the OS kill power to the displays after > inactivity. I've tried this setup with a Raspberry Pi 5 and now with a > small Ryzen/x86 computer and I get the same results. > > For this experiment I have the inactivity timer set to five minutes. > 00:00 - Stop moving the mouse > 05:00 - Screens fade to black > 05:11 - Monitor drive stops, displays power off > 05:25 - Monitors are back on, displaying the background image and time > 05:56 - Monitors fade to black and power off > 06:07 - Monitors are back on, displaying the background image and time > 10:23 - Monitors fade to black but remain powered on > > If I have a browser tab open with a security camera displayed, the > monitors stay on, as you'd expect. Same thing if I'm playing a local or > YouTube video. I find it most annoying to have to reach around to the > inconveniently placed power button and shut the monitors off. This > behavior doesn't make sense to me. > > Can anyone offer a suggestion here? It seems to me it ought to 'just > work.' Having displays powered on with a black screen is silly, or worse. > > Thanks in advance > Curt > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CADPPtrqKKJ%2BDz1Z8E8sSEBnsKB2V5XWFyY-ot_E9KQbWRecgDw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CADPPtrqKKJ%2BDz1Z8E8sSEBnsKB2V5XWFyY-ot_E9KQbWRecgDw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2BKhHxJK%3DdDWrzuokJ7go3LXv5bjuOOXXNiW%2B7hJQBhd7Dd7WA%40mail.gmail.com.
