Plasma sleeps during dolphin filecopy

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1

Can someone please verify in case this is an issue specific to my environment? TIA

Procedure:

  1. Fresh install of Kinoite 39
  2. use defaults for power settings (sleep in 10)
  3. copy files from an external USB to $HOME/somewhere in dolphin
  4. come back in 11 minutes

Observed behavior:
system has gone to sleep.

Expected behavior:
file copy keeps system awake

2

Nope.
Keeping the system awake depends upon keyboard or mouse activity. Anything else is ignored.

This seems related and the discussion has lots of comments.

3

Can you file a bug report in the KDE bug tracker: https://bugs.kde.org/ ? Thanks

4

A bug report would be immaterial. The change was deliberate with F38 release and I don’t believe it will be reversed. That linked discussion has several methods to turn off the auto-suspend issue that users are welcome to use.

I believe the decision was based on an attempt to make the OS more eco-friendly by reducing power demands overall.

5

For GNOME maybe, but this report is about Kinoite (KDE).

Please file a bug report so that options can be considered.

6

I am not sure about kinoite or silverblue, but as I understood it the change affected all the various spins but the fedora server release – regardless of the desktop involved. If kinoite or silverblue was not involved then that is news to me.

7

Applications my inhibit suspend using systemd-inhibit. It would be reasonable for Dolphin to inhibit suspend while a file copy is running for example and then lift that inhibit when it’s completed.

8

Done:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478785

Thank you.