Hello, Humbly I would suggest to install the "espresso" extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4135/espresso/
On Mon, 2023-01-23 at 10:24 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > Control: retitle -1 gnome-settings-daemon: automatic suspend after 20 > minutes is undesired by some users > Control: reassign -1 gnome-settings-daemon > Control: affects -1 + gnome-session > Control: tags -1 + upstream wontfix > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 01:19:44 +0000, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > It appears in Power settings, Automatic Suspend is On by default > > (with 20 > > minutes delay). > > This is intentional and has been true for about 5 years (in > particular, > this was already the case in Debian 11, and most likely Debian 10 as > well). > The automatic suspend became the default in upstream commit > < > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/commit/2fdb48fa > > > which mentions that this behaviour is required by national > regulations > for personal computers sold in the EU and USA (with no distinction > made > between laptop and desktop systems). > > Obviously Debian doesn't sell computers with Debian and GNOME > preinstalled, but it would seem inconsistent with our > social/environmental > responsibilities if we disabled a power-saving feature like this by > default, particularly when that would make it illegal for third > parties > to sell computers with our OS preinstalled in the countries where a > lot > of our contributors are based, and doubly so during an ongoing > worldwide > climate crisis and a Europe-wide energy shortage. > > > I am on a desktop PC, always on, and have programs in a background > > that > > must run non stop or for many hours (i.e. data acquisition / > > monitoring, > > long running scripts, simulations, etc). > > I would suggest using the system's built-in facilities to delay > suspend > while running these tasks. If you wrap a long-running command like > this: > > systemd-inhibit ./my-long-running-script > > then that should prevent the system from suspending to RAM during > these > long-running tasks. This is available in a default installation or on > live media (because it's part of our default init system). > > > I also do not understand why Screen Blank in Power Saving Options > > is > > "Never". A default should be few minutes. > > Blanking the screen is redundant with the default suspend-to-RAM: the > screen is always blanked and locked before suspending anyway. Of > course, > if you adjust the settings to disable suspend-to-RAM, then it will be > necessary to change adjacent settings to match. > > > suspend to RAM is often broken on computers I use > > There is probably a kernel command-line option that can be used to > disable the ability to suspend-to-RAM, as a workaround for hardware > where > the ability to suspend is present but non-functional, but I don't > know it. > > smcv >