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I am on Opensuse TW.

I have a laptop with an external monitor. Because of my aging eyes, it is not as easy to see the smaller laptop monitor. I never want the external display to shut off and although every setting I can see is set to never and every toggle, toggled, the screen still turn off and it requires me to log back in.

Another issue is I use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. When turning the computer on and SDDM presents me to login, bluetooth is not connected. This does not work well, as someone who used XFCE for years, it would enable bluetooth in the same spot. On KDE the login box shows on the larger monitor, but it is unusable. This is another ageing eyes issue, the laptop keyboard seems small and I keep the backlights off because I don’t use it.

Another issue is battery threshholds. For some reason the built in battery stuff does not work. I have just went back to TLP which works fine.

Other than these issues, I am loving KDE and perhaps this stuff is user error? If anyone is wondering how the monitor is hooked to the laptop, the laptop has one USB-c port and I am using a USB-c to DP cable, doing it this way forces the use of the discrete AMD 6800m.

I did use KDE back in the version 3 days. Wow, I’m now realizing that’s been awhile.

Thanks for looking and have a great day.

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Having to log back in could mean one of two things:

  • The screen locker activates. What are your settings in the Screen Locking settings page, and does your monitor still turn off if you switch this to “Never” as well?
  • The Plasma session quits entirely, perhaps because of a crash, and you’re back at SDDM for picking a user and restarting the session from scratch. This is probably not what’s happening for you, but can you confirm it?

For Bluetooth in SDDM, I don’t know enough about it to even ask good questions.

For battery thresholds, how exactly is it failing for you and also what’s your laptop model? There is a known issue for laptops that don’t preserve charge limits across reboots, and we have to change the KDE power management service to apply the limits on every login.

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Also, hi and welcome (back) to the community!