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@holeshapedgod12/30/2023, 6:35 PM

eevee @lexyeevee12/29/2023, 2:39 PM

i get why there's a WM feature that lets programs inhibit suspending the display, but surely that should be ignored if i explicitly lock the desktop

this post brought to you by i have no idea what is inhibiting suspend. also maybe there should be a way to find out what's inhibiting suspend

@holeshapedgod12/30/2023, 6:35 PM

Yeah, for some reason the spec doesn't have a method for querying the sceensaver inhibition status, only for requesting it.

However, implementations may provide a way to do that e.g. KDE displays that in the 'Battery and Brightness' in the system tray:

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Aaron Gable @asg12/29/2023, 3:44 PM

Somehow my monitor itself inhibits suspend: lock the screen, computer stays on forever. Lock the screen and hit the monitor's power button, computer is asleep in 5 minutes. It's been this way for years including across a clean OS reinstall and I still don't get it.

티재 @tabatkins12/29/2023, 3:53 PM

Cosigned by me, whose windows machine constantly and mysteriously gets in a "go into suspend, immediately wake up again" cycle and then just and mysteriously stops and sleeps normally.

@enderlord9912/29/2023, 3:59 PM

At one point as a teenager, I attended a special-needs school that was a full hour away by bus. I brought my laptop to entertain myself on the bus and between classes. When a class was about to start, I would try to shut it down... but sometimes the teacher would sneak up on me and push the lid closed.

This wouldn't be a problem, except that it PAUSED THE SHUTDOWN SEQUENCE and waste all my battery.

Plum @plumpan12/29/2023, 4:30 PM

The other day I had a grumpy nvme device that was doing it.

Aether @Tayruu12/30/2023, 12:41 AM

I've had this happen before where I've left my desktop alone and glanced over at it an hour later where the screen is still active all "why aren't you sleeping??"

I think it was my HDMI capture card (or rather the program for it) even though the PS4 or what-have-you was probably asleep itself. Or it could've been Firefox and Youtube, not sure.

@waitwotno1/1/2024, 1:04 PM

Having this issue rn

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eevee @lexyeevee12/30/2023, 6:43 PM

omg thank you, i didn't even know that was a panel since this is a desktop and has neither battery nor brightness lol

the culprit is "My SDL application" which apparently means milkytracker, god

@holeshapedgod12/30/2023, 7:13 PM

Yeah, SDL is intended for games so it does this by default. You can try running milkytracker with environment variable SDL_VIDEO_ALLOW_SCREENSAVER=1

eevee @lexyeevee12/30/2023, 7:21 PM

yeah i'm aware of the env var, i just didn't even know milky used sdl until right now. (and when i first ran into this happening i didn't even know "inhibit screensaver" was a feature so it drove me Up The Wall)

i've gone one step further and filed a bug on milkytracker. and on kde

@holeshapedgod12/30/2023, 7:16 PM

Also you can install DCC/CI driver if you want to control monitor brightness on desktop.