Rocky Linux 9.4 KDE: disable standby mode after 5 minutes?

[microlinux]

Hi,

I just installed a vanilla Rocky Linux 9.4 KDE desktop using the corresponding Live ISO.

One thing that’s puzzling me: the desktop goes to sleep after five minutes of inactivity or so. Meaning when I SSH into the machine and do some work on it, I suddenly get disconnected after five minutes.

Does anyone know how to turn this unnerving feature off?

Cheers,

Niki

[karen]

You might try checking to see if your dpms is enabled. You can check that with this:

xset -q

and see near the bottom the status, or someone in debian made a handy little bash script i saved a few years ago for the same reason:

xset -q | awk '/DPMS is/ {print $NF}'

then if you want to turn off energy star stuff you can use xset -dpms, and if later you want to re-enable it you would want to type xset dpms

I hope this works for plasma/kde, i know for sure it works for gnome - also you could try caffeine application, or see if there’s a way to enable “presentation mode” for KDE. I’m unsure how to do this in Rocky 9/KDE tho the xset should be relevant/work