#dpms — Public Fediverse posts
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I've noticed that at some point over the last several updates of Debian Testing / Trixie w/ Gnome that the lock screen now sleeps my screens properly.
Assuming some changes in DPMS handling has been added to the lock screen...
It's one of those things I never got around to digging into but, to whomever made code changes to make this happen automagically, Thank You!
I don't know if this is a 'net new' thing. I was on Debian Bookworm before and Pop! before that. Both were Gnome 43 (IIRC). And both didn't sleep my screens.
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I still have no idea why my monitors turn immediately back on after going into DPMS idle but I have cut the phase space down a bunch:
Contexts where screens stay in DPMS idle:
- Windows 10 (this changed recently, it used to have the same problem)
- X + aterm, nothing else running, manual "xset dpms force off"
- X + aterm + mate-wm, nothing else running
Contexts where screens turn back on:
- Complete MATE desktop environment
- XFCE
- KDE
- niri
Things that don't affect the problem:
- Disconnecting either of the monitors
- Disconnecting the mouse
- Disconnecting the keyboard
- Which idle mode is used (standby/suspend/off)
- Using HDMI cables instead of DisplayPort (I think)
Please suggest more troubleshooting strategies for me to try, this has been annoying me for months and the only idea I have left is to plug more pieces of MATE in via .xinitrc until it breaks which sounds unutterably tedious
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@gurkan seeing weird sub-2-minute behaviour here as well. Haven't figured out yet why. Blamed #KDEPlasma first, but there weren't any changes to its configuration.
