How do you stop the screen from locking? [fixed]

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Love KDE, but this drives me crazy. I’m on:

KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0

So naturally, you would think going into System Settings and turning ‘Lock screen automatically’ to Never would stop it. Everything in the Power Management looks fine as well.

Google search isn’t helping me with this. Help please!

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Works for me, and I use that setting myself. What exactly is not working; under which circumstances is the system locking at a time when you would expect it to not be locking?

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I leave it on over night and it’s locked when I wake up, so I’m not sure exactly how long it takes before it automatically locks itself.

Anything else I can try to stop it from doing that?

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under power management in the system tray you can toggle the setting to prevent screen lock / monitor shutoff.

also could be a feature of your monitor itself which you can check using the utility gddcontrol.

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It’s probably going to sleep and locking when it wakes from sleep. Try also unchecking the “Lock after waking from sleep” checkbox.

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Under the Suspend Session? When inactive? I have that set to Do Nothing. I just changed When power button pressed to Do Nothing as well. I don’t think that will fix it, but here’s hoping.

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That was unchecked as well.

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Then I don’t know what it might be, sorry.

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Darn! Appreciate the effort, though!

I may have to resort to finding some way to keep the mouse moving.

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Does it still lock itself overnight if you go to Power and Battery in the System Tray, and “Manually Block” Sleep and Screen Locking?

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Also, could you share your system’s setup from the Info Center app? The “Copy Details” button in the top-right will put that on the clipboard for easy pasting here :slight_smile:

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I fixed it!

It actually was the ‘When power button pressed’ setting that did it. Changed it to Do nothing it and it worked. Feel silly for overlooking that, but I’m just glad it’s working now.

Thanks to everyone who tried to help with it! You guys are the best, because it sucks trying to troubleshoot things on your own. Especially when you really need the fix.

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