Lately, My monitor is not powering off, as it once did. I have not changed anything (other than updates)
My video card is
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] (rev a1)
Monitor is MSI MAG322CQR.
I am using using the opensource drivers.
My setting is to power monitor off after 10 minutes (screen energy saving setting), but when I come back hours later- it is at the lock screen (set to 9 minutes).
Power management and screen locker setup are in different parts of systemsettings. Power management has its own section. Screen locker is in workspace behavior.
Thanks, that’s where I was, I only get a few icons one of which opens the energy savings pic as above. I don’t see any thing suggesting an app (I don’t use many - this is basically an internet browsing/movies/music machine- no games etc…)
After much trial, and reading, I figured out that disabling kscreen 2 Fixed the isseu.
here KDE settings → Startup and shutdown → Background services → in “Startup devices” uncheck KScreen 2
My Question is - what do I risk by keeping this disabled - all i got was:
" screen management software for KDE Plasma Workspaces which tries to be as magic and automatic as possible for users with basic needs and easy to configure for those who want special setups"
My set up is a basic as it comes. I use as only internet & video/music machine. Everything is default except I have the media codecs. One monitor.
I do not know for sure. But if it helps you to relax.
Some time ago I had (still have it) a desktop system, but for some reason KDE decided it was a laptop. So what, but it became weird when it every 5 mins (or so) asked which screen was to be used for what. Of course there was only that one screen. After much searching and of course ending up asking here, the advise was to switch off KScreen2. It worked. I forgot about this until now and never had any problems with having this switched off.
