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I have elementary os 5.0 Loki installed on a Dell Latitude e6410. This machine will not stay awake whether it's on battery or plugged in! I will go and set the sleep time to never in power settings for both battery and plugged in and it will still just go to sleep after a while. The one thing that is remarkable about the hardware, as far as I know, is that the laptop has a Nvidia GPU and we have had a fair amount of problems getting a proper driver for it. I'm familiar with alot of basic things in Linux but because I am not in Linux every day, there are alot of things I don't know. Any guidance would be appreciated.

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It's known bug: https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-power/issues/89

Try this workaround:

dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type nothing
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  • Didn't work for me - nor other solutions I've looked for. I did a nice test last night - kept my notebook open and playing a music overnight while I kept it charging. woke up today and found that the screen was on, but black, and the sound had stopped. Not a huge deal, but annoying nonetheless.
    – Renan Lazarotto
    Commented Nov 16, 2019 at 12:55
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    run Commands in this order should work: #### sudo su enter, then your password #### su - -s /bin/bash lightdm enter #### dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type nothing
    – Raj
    Commented Nov 26, 2019 at 16:34
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Please run Commands in this order, It should definitely work:

sudo su

enter, then your password

su - -s /bin/bash lightdm

enter

dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type nothing

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  • I think that elementary may have resolved the issue. Check to see if your system is up to date. I will do a longer test. i have not tried keeping it awake over night
    – Bryan Pruett
    Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 4:40
  • I don't entirely know what happened but I ran my own test last night by leaving the machine on and setting it to not sleep. This morning when I got up the screen was off but I was able to turn it on with a touch. so it seems to be fixed.
    – Bryan Pruett
    Commented Nov 27, 2019 at 14:04

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