On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 4:04 AM Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> > > > On 5 May 2023, at 21:48, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 4:04 PM Tim via users > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> > >> Tim: > >>>> Are you falling foul of the recent Gnome change that puts a machine > >>>> to sleep if it considers that it's been idle for about 15 minutes? > >>>> > >>>> One of the all-time *DUMB* moves by Gnome. > >> > >> George N. White III: > >>> Not at all. Large organizations are trying to reduce power > >>> consumption by workstations sitting idle overnight, during meetings, > >>> lunch breaks, etc. > >> > >> And what do you think they're going to do? Undo that setting, so that > >> they don't have to deal with employees annoyed at having to wake up > >> their PCs all day long because they don't actually use the PC > >> constantly to keep it awake, but do need to refer to it a lot, and the > >> wait for resumption while trying to keep a customer on the phone is > >> being a pain, an inability for IT to remotely manage PCs when they > >> want, and debugging PCs that don't wake from suspend/hibernation. > >> > >> Greenwashing... > > > > The most annoying thing (to me) was, Fedora maintainers did not make > > the setting default for new installs. Instead, they changed the > > setting for existing installs, like a F37 -> F38 system upgrade. > > I read elsewhere that the setting change is to the default. > If you had ever changed the power settings the default is not used > apparently. > > The default is used on new installs, and because it is the default also > applies to upgrades, as i say, if you had not changed the default power > settings. > > I am not a gnome used so have no direct experience of this change. > > Barry > > > > > It really annoyed me when a couple of my machines went to sleep and I > > had to drive across town to wake them and reconfigure them. > > > > Jeff > Same here, I guess it didn't happen on my test machine that I updated first because that was switched to sddm, another way to avoid this.
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