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.

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.

    • ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      49·
      15 days 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

  • hoshikarakitaridiaEnglish
    292·
    15 days ago

    Still faster than windows fixing their Update and shutdown bug lol

  • CavemanEnglish
    10·
    15 days ago

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

  • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
    9·
    15 days 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.

  • Bouc@feddit.itEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

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

  • FedizenEnglish
    523·
    15 days ago

    KDE not beating their “windows vista of linux” allegations but at least they’re addressing issues eventually.

    • Anti_IridiumEnglish
      14·
      15 days ago

      I’ve never heard of them.

      I will say though, I have used KDE for a very long time. I cant think of any complaints other than that one, and even then, there has been a button to block sleep and screen locking after inactivity for I don’t even know how long.

      • FedizenEnglish
        12·
        14 days ago

        It was something I remember seeing on reddit some 10 years ago or so, don’t know how much its stuck but it stuck for me