On Tue, 2022-02-08 at 21:43 -0500, Alex wrote: > Hi, > I have fedora35 installed on my desktop with a Radeon RX 570 driving > three monitors, with the Cinnamon desktop, although it could be the > other variation of Cinnamon that's available by default - I checked > the Settings menu and can't find any way to determine which it is. > I'd > like all three monitors to turn off after 15 minutes of inactivity. > What is the best way to do that? Simple question, but clearly not a > simple answer. > > I'm an old-school admin from a time when we had to build our own X11 > config files. I just expect things to work now, so I haven't really > kept up with the desktop, even though fedora and whatever graphical > display it provides by default has been my primary desktop since > before Windows XP. > > Now, when I set the "turn off the screen when inactive for" option to > 5m in the Power Management settings, I find that it takes far longer > than five minutes for it to actually turn off the monitors, but then > not only do they all immediately turn back on, but all of the windows > on the middle monitor are shifted to the two left and right monitors. > wtf? It's incredibly frustrating to have to reposition all windows > back to their original location. > > How do I troubleshoot this? ... Hi, I suspect there are multiple issues you are experiencing, and some of them I have for a long time, totally unrelated to the desktop environment used and distribution. I'm also experincing issues with display power management not working, I don't know which one it is really and do these match with the issues you are experiencing, but one thing is common and that is AMD graphics card (here: AMD Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series (polaris12)) and there are some known issues with them waking up displays[1][2] (at least what I found, could be unrelated, I gave up when I saw for how long they exist). I mostly use other desktop environments (Gnome and KDE) both with wayland session, and they had their own issues when they lose a display (output) things were crashing ..., but that is now improved. But still I see issues with applications move to other display after display goes to sleep and returns. (also experienced same issues with XFCE). Not helpful really, but just my rant about it since I have those issues for some time now. Regards, Branko [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1840 [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/662 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
