When using Elementary (5.1.3) to stream music or video it goes to sleep after a while. I don't really want to change the power settings but would like Elementary to recognise when a stream is active and allow it to continue. Other posts suggest solutions such as caffiene no longer work. Is there a way to get the behaviour I would like please? With thanks in advance!
Steve
This issue is more on lightdm, I've already explained this before so I won't explain further and rather I'll just put steps here, This problem is because the power settings are used from the gconf configuration of the user lightdm, and not the current user. Just test:
sudo su
su - -s /bin/bash lightdm
gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type
If these returns suspend then you can pass nothing like below to change it and you should be good.
dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type nothing
just ignore any output you get, reboot to take in effect, In my experience OS update 3 weeks ago reverted this setting which was in place since last year, but same worked again.
Also just verify power settings after reboot. incase you still having issues.
suspend even after running the second command and rebooting.
Commented
May 1, 2020 at 7:02
systemctl reboot -i' i don't know if that has any relevance on whether this works or not?
Commented
May 1, 2020 at 20:51
What about something like keep awake