Is there such a thing as ‘presentation mode’ in KDE? That means bypassing my power settings to keep my screen on. This is easily available by the use of a toggle switch on other DEs, but so far I’ve failed to find any such configuration in KDE Plasma.
In the system tray you should have a “display configuration” icon. Left click that and it should show a toggle for presentation mode.
I’d be interested to know how these options differ at the backend. I’ll try to hunt it down when I have a few minutes.
They could just be different links to the same thing. Although, maybe they differ with how they respond to the user manually putting the computer to sleep / rebooting.
I know the option I mentioned will stay enabled even if you manually put the computer to sleep. whereas maybe the presentation mode toggle will not? Yeah that would be interesting to test.
I have discovered that middle clicking on the battery / power state icon ( 3 finger tap on a track pad )will toggle this feature. Very neat.
I’ve created an activity for presentation and used its settings to disable automatic screen shutoff.
I think at some point it also allowed me to set notifications to “do not disturb” but I can’t find that right now.
The “Block Sleep and Screen Locking” item only blocks as stated, so your screen will still blank out after the inactivity period specified in power management.
The difference is that Presentation mode specifically also disables this screen blanking.
Yes. Thanks everyone.
It showed up in Manjaro, but not in Endeavouros where I was posting from. It’s noticeable that Manjaro comes bundled with quite a few more power ‘add-ons’ than does Eos. I’ve installed a few of them on Eos and now I can see ‘Enable Presentation mode’ under ‘Display Configuration’ in my system tray.
But I’m surprised though that I cannot find ‘Presentation Mode’ anywhere in System Settings which is where I would expect to see it, especially under the Power Settings category.