I have KDE set to Turn Off Screen after 5 minutes and to Sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. This works when I first turn on the machine, but eventually stops working after a few hours of general use (mostly Firefox, VS Code, and some Steam games). Sometimes the screen isn't turning off at all, other times the screen turns off but the machine never goes to sleep. (Explicitly telling it to go to sleep from the main menu always works.)
EDIT: Seems like browser tabs or Steam are the likely culprits. I would often leave Steam running in the background, and KDE is suspending more reliably for me now after I close it. Possibly this steam-for-linux GitHub issue.
I figure there's either some sort of issue with KDE power management, or one (or more) applications are preventing it from sleeping. How do I troubleshoot this further?
systemd-inhibit just lists PowerDevil, which seems to be KDE's power management service:
$ systemd-inhibit --list --mode=block
WHO UID USER PID COMM WHAT WHY MODE
PowerDevil 1000 iggames 4115 org_kde_powerde handle-power-key:handle-suspend-key:handle-hibernate-key:handle-lid-switch KDE handles power events block
1 inhibitors listed.
One time, I clicked KDE's Power Management notification icon, and it showed me an app that was preventing sleep (a game that had not exited properly). Most of the time, however, it doesn't list anything.
Is there a way to see what apps are causing "activity" that would prevent PowerDevil from suspending the machine? What should I try next?
System details:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Kernel Version: 6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12400
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B660M DS3H DDR4
I highly recommend list-inhibitors. Not sure if this is the one I mean, the command line seems to match to the one I use: https://pypi.org/project/list-session-inhibitors/
This command gives a way nicer output.
For me Firefox often prevents the system from going to idle. If some page has a video it often seems to inhibit going to idle. Firefox strangely does that even if the video is paused.
For me and Firefox I'm often intend to do something about it. And then I don't for various reasons 😂
Looks like that script is for Gnome (based on the StackOverflow post listed on the project page, it talks to org.gnome.SessionManager via dbus). I wonder if there is a similar way to talk to PowerDevil?