Openbox hangs after 10 minutes idle [SOLVED]

developer1105 · 2022-05-04 21:03:26

When using Openbox, it enters into sleep mode after 10 minutes, and I cannot make it come back from sleep mode without having to reboot the machine.

Last edited by developer1105 (2022-05-05 17:14:12)

seth · 2022-05-04 21:13:38

xset -dpms

This will disable DPMS and you can check "xset q" to query the state.

Why the system doesn't "wake" from DPMS is a different question. Avoid a hard reboot under all circumstances.
Try to ssh into the machine and if that's not possible see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboa … el_(SysRq)

developer1105 · 2022-05-05 17:13:05

I found out that xconfd from Thunar (the file manager I use) is calling the screenlocker that is interfering with Openbox. This way, I have changed some config files from xconfd to avoid this from happening. Remember that I don't have xfce installed in my machine. I use only Thunar (and xconfd, that is installed as a dependency of Thunar).

The modifications I have done are these:

files are in [~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml]

xfce4-power-manager.xml
everything that what set as true was changed to false

xfce4-screensaver.xml
everything that what set as true was changed to false

xfce4-session.xml
LockCommand is set as ""

developer1105 · 2022-05-05 17:23:56

Thanks Seth. I thought nobody would answer so fast. I have tried your answer and countless others, and none of those worked for me. So I wrote this post to share the solution that worked for me and might help other people with a similar problem. My solution can possibly be improved and maybe serve as a workaround if there is an unsolved bug in xfce, thunar, whatever.

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#1 2022-05-04 21:03:26

Openbox hangs after 10 minutes idle [SOLVED]

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Re: Openbox hangs after 10 minutes idle [SOLVED]

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Re: Openbox hangs after 10 minutes idle [SOLVED]

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Re: Openbox hangs after 10 minutes idle [SOLVED]

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