Can't stop suspend

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Hi–I posted this to UM Community forums also; I have Mate 22.04. My problem is that I tried many things to get the display from going blank (a trouble when I’m playing a game)–installing Caffeine, Power Manager settings in Startup Programs, BIOS settings. I was hoping someone could help because I’m out of ideas–

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout '0' && gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout '0'

sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target
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Stop Screen Blanking
Please try this:

xset -dpms s off s noblank s 0 0 s noexpose

Let us know if that helped.

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On the desktop layer something like below should work:

dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver --type=method_call --print-reply --reply-timeout=20000 /org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Inhibit string:"MPlayer" string:"Watching video"

(Adjust the two strings to your liking (or just omit them))

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After a long time apent away from computer, I returned to a standby screen; turned off monitor to make sure there’s no power-saving setting I have activated.

anthony@anthony-OptiPlex-9010:~$ dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver --type=method_call --print-reply --reply-timeout=20000 /org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Inhibit string:"MPlayer" string:"Watching video"
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files
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You need to run this inside the running session before, not after it has suspended… It is supposed to prevent it from even going into suspend when you i.e. watch a movie

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Hi. I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you mean by inside running session. The command I entered while the computer was in normal (not standby) mode. Can you tell me what you meant about the aforementioned words–what do I do to enter the command and stop the standby problem.

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Ah, sorry I read it as if you were logged in to a CLI when the monitor was off (via ssh or some such), if you get that message in a running session I guess mate does not use gnome-screensaver then …

For Xscreensaver (which mate likely uses then) you can try:

dbus-send --session \
      --dest=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver \
      --type=method_call \
      --print-reply \
      --reply-timeout=20000 \
      /org/freedesktop/ScreenSaver \
      org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.Inhibit \
      string:program string:reason

this will return a cookie string you want to keep to turn off the inhibition like below:

dbus-send --session \
      --dest=org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver \
      --type=method_call \
      --print-reply \
      --reply-timeout=20000 \
      /org/freedesktop/ScreenSaver \
      org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.UnInhibit \
      uint32:<inhibit-cookie>
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