Since recently my desktop pc turns off the screens as set per power savings plan despite the pc being in use by games when using a gamepad or obs screen record. I could of course disable the powerplan alltogether but I feel like this problem isnt the intended behavior. Has anyone else encountered this issue?
Most DEs generally measure “activity” based on Keyboard/Mouse input. Gamepads don’t count, so the computer will run power actions even if you have been running the gamepad for awhile.
EDIT: Doing a bit more research, keeping the screen awake is generally something the application itself does. If I understand things right, applications such as Steam, Firefox, and Retroarch should do this as needed. However, not all games are set up for this (especially if you are not running off of Steam).
it worked until a month ago or so so I kinda doubt suddenly every game as well as obs broke this at the same time…
edit: im running them using steam
Are the inhibitors registering?
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.PowerManagement /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement/Inhibit org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit.GetInhibitors
returns an empty array
method return time=1737578301.427869 sender=:1.33 -> destination=:1.457 serial=225 reply_serial=2
array [
]
now that you mentioned it, I tested it and it seems that firefox on youtube still stops the screen from turning off, maybe something broke in steam and obs at the same time after all
I know that Steam has limited support for non-Ubuntu setups, but you may want to register a bug report in OBS.
Or use a script to enable and disable Presentation Mode for a specific application
Disable screensaver / monitor power saving when using a specific program
It seems to be a regression with XFCE 4.20 series.