How do I prevent automatic suspend/sleep/shutdown/monitor off when I’m running a WM like qtile? I’ve had a look at the ArchWiki Power Management article, and tried to control it with Xfce’s Power Management, as well as the DE independent Powerkit tool, but neither work. I made sure to add Powerkit to autorun at startup, and turned off the screensaver with xscreensaver, but despite that the monitor still turns itself off after x minutes. It is not a hardware feature, as it has not been an issue with other DEs/WMs.
I do not need complex power management. It is a desktop computer, and I do not want it to auto suspend, shutdown, or turn off its monitor unless I tell it to. How can I achieve this when software rules do not seem to be respected?
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Any other ideas? I looked through /etc/systemd/logind.conf and IdleAction is set to Ignore so it shouldn’t interfere. I haven’t seen the system sleep, so it is possible that is now functioning fine, but it definitely still turns off the display after ~20 minutes. Couldn’t find an option for this in the systemd config. Where else could I look?
As I wrote in the initial post, it is not a hardware issue. It has worked fine with Gnome, Bspwm and KDE. Just to confirm, I checked the monitor settings now and it is not set to sleep/poweroff by itself.
