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KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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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 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 week 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 15 points 1 week ago

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

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

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