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necbot

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Registered: 2013-12-05

Posts: 59

[Solved] caffeine-ng does not stop screen lock

I installed caffeine-ng from AUR but it does not seem to work.  Whenever I'm playing my old NES games on higan the screen starts to go to sleep.  The caffeine icon is in my systray and it has the "steam" coming out the top indicating that it is working.   Any ideas?  Thanks.

Last edited by necbot (2015-06-23 12:12:28)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] caffeine-ng does not stop screen lock

Does this happen even if you're using keyboard or a controller or only when you're AFK for some time?
I can't help you with caffeine, but you can disable dpms and / or screen blanking in other ways.

necbot

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Registered: 2013-12-05

Posts: 59

Re: [Solved] caffeine-ng does not stop screen lock

Very strange....  I switched my desktop environment from mate to XFCE and caffeine-ng works fine.