Idle / Lock High CPU Fix or Work-around

[JD_KDE]

Ever since doing a long-delayed update of my KDE Neon install a couple of weeks ago, my CPU and fans go crazy every time my PC times out and locks the screen. I assume I have this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484323

That bug is about a year old. I read the comments. But, I’m not sure I understand if there is a reasonable work-around. I only saw comments about restarting X11. But, I don’t know how to configure that to happen every time the PC goes to idle. Can anyone explain this or whatever other work-around may exist? I’ve had to just configure my laptop to never idle out / lock, which really sucks.

[skyfishgoo]

i’ve had issues with sleep on plasma 6.1, so i’ve since set power management option for suspend to “do nothing”

and then added my own script that runs after 30 min of inactivity to execute systemctl suspend-then-hibernate

there are a few more changes you need to make, detailed here

Tracking down failure to wake from sleep

UPDATE: work around successful (at least during the day time) set plasma power management to “do nothing” and instead after a period of time run a script to operate systemctl controls systemctl requires the sudo privilege escalation but also requires a password, which is difficult and unwise to include in a bash script. instead, used sudo visudo to add a line at the end of the file [username] [pcname]=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/systemctl which allows me [username] on my PC [pcname] to imp…