Hey everyone.
Basically I need to do what the title says. I did have xfce4-power-manager installed and had it set there (had the setting disabled so that it wouldn’t suspend after inactive), but xfce4-notifyd was creating problems with dunst which I installed and setup last night, so I removed xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-logind.
However now after a few minutes of not doing anything my PC sleeps. There must be a setting somewhere I can edit which is the same thing xfce4 uses to implement this, no? Either a file or another power manager software which will not cause problems with my dunst.
Thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions!
Caffeine works good for me on i3
From what Ive read caffeine seems to be for temporarily disabling suspend functionality in a specific context. e.g. when running a certain task. It doesn’t disable the automatic suspend functionality in general, which is what I want. I have a “sleep” key on my keyboard which I use when I need to, but all other times I need my PC to be awake.
It stops the auto sleep function for me when enabled, it has the option to be “on” and “on when x app is running”
You could even tell it to never let your system sleep when your wm is running
Ah ok cool. Ill try it out if disabling xfce4-notifyd doesn’t work out. Thanks
What DE/WM are you using right now?
Im on bspwm
Arch Wiki has a bunch you can try to dig through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management However if it were me I’d just reinstall the power manager if that was easy for you to manage. You can turn off the xfce-4 notifier at that point since they both won’t be able to access the dbus at the same time. Look at /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notityd.Notifications.service Then change Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications to Name=org.freedesktop.NotificationsNone and reboot.
OK Im ready now :) If I install the xfce4-power-manager, how can I turn off the notifier and keep dunst as my notifier? Thanks
Open /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notityd.Notifications.service in a text editor, like nano, vim, etc. For instance, in terminal type nano /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notityd.Notifications.service This will open the file org.xfce.xfce4-notityd.Notifications.service In that file, find the line Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications Change that line to read Name=org.freedesktop.NotificationsNone Save the file, in nano it’s ctrl+x it will ask if you want to modify file,type y for yes. Next it will ask if you want to keep file the same name, just hit enter. Then reboot your computer.
Thanks, will install xfce4-power-manager to try this and report back :)
Edit: This seems to work. I have both a power manager and dunst working. Thanks!
Ill try that, but I’ll probably need some clarification about what exactly you mean. I read the wiki page and thats where I initially decided to use xfce4 power manager from. As for the rest could you please explain a bit deeper? Im relatively new to arch so I need steps broken down :)
