Hi, I was wondering how I would go about preventing EndeavourOS from turning off the screen as long as a particular process is running. The problem I’m trying to solve: Spotify is running, and I’m listening to it using my external monitor’s speakers. When the screen turns off after a while (idle),…

Which Desktop Environment? X or Wayland?

I’m running i3wm, and X11 I guess

[image] kingchad: I was wondering how I would go about preventing EndeavourOS from turning off the screen as long as a particular process is running. If you are using XFCE you could enable “Presentation Mode” with the xfce power manager plugin.

Don’t know how i3wm handles it, but you could probably create a script using xset to toggle your power management/screen blanking for when you start and stop the app. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_Power_Management_Signaling xset s off -dpms

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Your power settings in i3 will be in your config file. You can make adjustments there. You may find this helpful. https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

Prevent screen off due to idle when app is running

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