Fedora automatically turn screen off even just not using the mouse (but using a controller and so on)

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hello, seems like, from a month or so fedora automatically turns the screen off after 5 minutes of inactivity (which is right and what i set)

problem is now even if i’m playing something with a controller or watching a movie, if i’m not using a kb or a mouse, screen turns off, and it’s very very tedious

say i’m playing a game with a controller, on steam, and after 5 minutes is launched screen turns off, or i start a movie and after 5 minutes screen is off, unless of course i use kb or mouse

any help?what can i do to prevent this?

for the record i’m on fedora workstation 41…

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That is very annoying.

So you want to keep your screen time-out at 5 mins, but make it so using a controller or watching a movie prevents the screen turning off?

It sounds like a bug to me, I would report it on Bugzillla.

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Which app(s) are you using to watch movies?

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using showtime but it’s irrelevant, tried with clapper also

tauon also has a function to prevent turning the screen off when listening to music, but it’s not working either, so i suppose it’s irrelevant

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exactly, everything was working fine till one or two months ago, i don’t exactly recall when it started but not so long ago…

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As I understand there is work going on to add game controllers to tge list of devices that prevent screens turning off. But it is not present in current builds.

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nice to know, but the question is, why it was working before?

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Maybe some power setting changed?
I guess you checked the power settings are as you need them to be?

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yeah, turn off the screen on in 5 minutes, suspend is off, also, never touched these settings apart for turning suspend and lock screen off

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This that 5 min setting am I right to assume that 5 mins into playing a game controller only the screen turns off?

Given the lack of game controller activity monitoring I would expect that to be what happens.

You could use man systemd-inhibit command when starting a game. Then sleep will not happen until you quit the game. If you play via steam then I asume you could change teh way steam launches to use systemd-inhibit steam.

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Did you by any chance upgrade to F41 around the time it stopped working? Fedora replaced power-profiles-daemon with tuned with the F41 release.

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sorry i don’t remember, i updated just some days ago f41 was released so no i don’t think so…