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jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

Hi all,

starting yesterday, I experience the following problem on my system: If I don't touch mouse and keyboard for about 60 seconds, the screen goes blank. My system runs arch-x86 with KDE4, all updates done, only standard repos activated (no testing).

Here are the screensaver settings:
--> "Start automatically" is disabled

And here the power management settings:
--> profile "Performance" is always used, as it's a desktop and therefore the AC adaptor is always plugged in

--> screen power management is disabled in the "Performance" profile

Does anyone else have the same problem? Any ideas what to do to get rid of it?

Thanks in advance & kind regards,
jamesbond007.

jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

Re: KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

Hi again,

I was told on the IRC to try the following commands:

xset -dpms
xset s off

and

kdesu "xset -dpms"
kdesu "xset s off"

But unfortunately, the problem remains the same...

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

Sometimes it happens here too and logging out and in helps.

augegr

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 36

Re: KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

I confirm this behavior. And lucke's suggestion works for me as well.

Note that it gets triggered randomly (or by a program which I haven't observed).

jamesbond007

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-06-14

Posts: 150

Re: KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

Thanks for your answers. So it seems to be a KDE bug?

Meanwhile I solved the problem by activating "Start automatically" after 1.000 minutes...

kalpik

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From: India

Registered: 2007-05-08

Posts: 163

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Re: KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

Happens with me too randomly!

superchango

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From: Tenochtitlan

Registered: 2009-01-22

Posts: 133

Re: KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

@ jamesbond007: I don't thing that this is a kde bug. I have  installed Kdemod 4.3.4 and all work fine with screensaver and Power Manager.

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Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: KDE4: Screensaver is activated after 60 seconds for no apparent reason

I've seen this once too, would have to do with Xorg server or Powerdevil.

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