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Power and screen management#

There are a number of ways of managing the screen (inhibit screen saver etc.)

  • Use an external screen-saver manager such as caffeine

  • Use the legacy mwp settings options, for example:

    org.stronnag.mwp atexit 'gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim true'
org.stronnag.mwp atstart 'gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim false'

  • Allow mwp to manage screen and power settings, controlled by a setting:

    gsettings set org.stronnag.mwp manage-power true

In the first two cases, the setting is somewhat coarse, either requiring the user to click on something and applying to the whole mwp session.

The final case applies only when mwp is receiving push telemetry (LTM, Mavlink, MQTT). Inhibiting IDLE and SUSPEND is performed using the GTK inhibit() API and will thus work with most window managers.