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KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Finally! One of the most annoying issues is your system going to sleep while gaming with a controller, and KDE Plasma 6.6 will solve it.

As noted in a fresh This Week in Plasma blog post, developer Nate Graham notes "Using a game controller will now count as 'activity', stopping the system from automatically going to sleep or locking the screen", which solves a bug report opened all the way back in 2013.

There's plenty more, but for me that really is the headline fix as it's happened far too many times for me to the point that I often just entirely turn off any sleep management or screen locking.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Huh, this has never happened to me while gaming with a controller.

[–] ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 month ago

This varies on the setup. A lot of gaming distributions ship with "gamemode" which among other things, may prevent your system from going into sleep whenever a game is running.

I presume the change in Plasma is so it considers controller input as "user presence" and doesn't go to the screensaver/sleep

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago

The games you play may aquire a wake lock while open/running.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Strangely enough, this just happened to me 2 days ago.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still faster than windows fixing their Update and shutdown bug lol

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This KDE bug was reported in 2013. I’m scared to look up the Windows bug report date…

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Windows 10 betas didn't even come out until like 2014 so KDE beats them.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Windows 11 still has screens from Windows 95 in it…

(The format dialogue is one of the easiest to find.)

[–] HaunchesTV@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

I've had my screen timeout set to never for so long I forgot I had this issue.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month ago

That's an odd issue. Still glad they fixed it.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Fuck yeah, I'm tired of having to use the trackpad to move the mouse because my screen dimmed.

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 9 points 1 month ago

OMG finally. One of my top irritations since switching to Linux is that I can't use system power-saving features because they don't respect my ganepads or wireless keyboard and wake.

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Guess I won't need joystickwake anymore.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Activity" just for determining sleep or does it count as general HID activity? Are drifting controller sticks the new mouse jiggler?

[–] who@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Are drifting controller sticks the new mouse jiggler?

Calibration can help with drifting sticks.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Setting_up_deadzones_and_calibration

[–] Bouc@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago

It's a bit late for me, I've now gone back to XFCE with X11 and I'm very happy with it.