Finally! One of the most annoying issues is your system going to sleep while gaming with a controller, and KDE Plasma 6.6 will solve it.
As noted in a fresh This Week in Plasma blog post, developer Nate Graham notes “Using a game controller will now count as ‘activity’, stopping the system from automatically going to sleep or locking the screen”, which solves a bug report opened all the way back in 2013.
There’s plenty more, but for me that really is the headline fix as it’s happened far too many times for me to the point that I often just entirely turn off any sleep management or screen locking.
Huh, this has never happened to me while gaming with a controller.
Still faster than windows fixing their Update and shutdown bug lol
This KDE bug was reported in 2013. I’m scared to look up the Windows bug report date…
That’s an odd issue. Still glad they fixed it.
Fuck yeah, I’m tired of having to use the trackpad to move the mouse because my screen dimmed.
OMG finally. One of my top irritations since switching to Linux is that I can’t use system power-saving features because they don’t respect my ganepads or wireless keyboard and wake.
“Activity” just for determining sleep or does it count as general HID activity? Are drifting controller sticks the new mouse jiggler?
Are drifting controller sticks the new mouse jiggler?
Calibration can help with drifting sticks.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Setting_up_deadzones_and_calibration
It’s a bit late for me, I’ve now gone back to XFCE with X11 and I’m very happy with it.
KDE not beating their “windows vista of linux” allegations but at least they’re addressing issues eventually.
I’ve never heard of them.
I will say though, I have used KDE for a very long time. I cant think of any complaints other than that one, and even then, there has been a button to block sleep and screen locking after inactivity for I don’t even know how long.
