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How to set "suspend when inactive for: " power settings without xfce4-power-manager so that my desktop doesnt sleep automatically (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone.

Basically I need to do what the title says. I did have xfce4-power-manager installed and had it set there (had the setting disabled so that it wouldn't suspend after inactive), but xfce4-notifyd was creating problems with dunst which I installed and setup last night, so I removed xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-logind.

However now after a few minutes of not doing anything my PC sleeps. There must be a setting somewhere I can edit which is the same thing xfce4 uses to implement this, no? Either a file or another power manager software which will not cause problems with my dunst.

Thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ill try that, but I'll probably need some clarification about what exactly you mean. I read the wiki page and thats where I initially decided to use xfce4 power manager from. As for the rest could you please explain a bit deeper? Im relatively new to arch so I need steps broken down :)