[Solution] KDE power management (powerdevil) acting up

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Hello! Every so often after a reboot, the KDE power management daemon decides to not work properly. This causes the power button to not act as I expect, no automatic sleep, and screen/keyboard brightness to quit working. After digging around the internet and playing around with my computer a bit, I found the solution is to restart the power management daemon.

  1. Kill the power management daemon via terminal command killall org_kde_powerdevil

  2. Start powerdevil again. kstart5 /usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevil
    Note: The binary is installed to /usr/lib not /usr/bin

  3. Put your computer to sleep USING THE SLEEP MENU important then wake it up (this helps re-register power buttons if you have configured them to do something other than shut down the computer)

  4. Enjoy having your problems disappear :slight_smile: