KDE - Disabling suspend from command line

drmozes · 01-15-2024, 06:36 AM

Hi

Does anybody know how to disable 'Suspend action' within KDE's config, using the KDE command line tools?

In the Install guide, the section 'Disable KDE Suspend action' describes the requirement:

If you scroll up a few lines, you'll find the heading 'KDE fixups', where we call 'kwriteconfig5' to disable Compositing: this works, so kwriteconfig5 works properly at least.

I've tried using this but it doesn't work.

Code:

kwriteconfig5 --file kdeglobals --group PowerDevil --key UseSuspend false

Any ideas?

Thanks
s.

giomat · 01-17-2024, 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drmozes

Hi

Does anybody know how to disable 'Suspend action' within KDE's config, using the KDE command line tools?

In the Install guide, the section 'Disable KDE Suspend action' describes the requirement:

If you scroll up a few lines, you'll find the heading 'KDE fixups', where we call 'kwriteconfig5' to disable Compositing: this works, so kwriteconfig5 works properly at least.

I've tried using this but it doesn't work.

Code:

kwriteconfig5 --file kdeglobals --group PowerDevil --key UseSuspend false

Any ideas?

Thanks
s.

My fedora at work has kde plasma 5.27.4. When I select or deselect the option to suspend session automatically (has shown in the docs screenshot), the config file "powermanagementprofilesrc" is modified, specifically the group [AC][SuspendSession].
I was able to disable the suspend session using the following kwriteconfig commands

Code:

kwriteconfig5 --file powermanagementprofilesrc --group AC --group SuspendSession --key idleTime --delete
kwriteconfig5 --file powermanagementprofilesrc --group AC --group SuspendSession --key suspendThenHibernate --delete
kwriteconfig5 --file powermanagementprofilesrc --group AC --group SuspendSession --key suspendType --delete

drmozes · 01-17-2024, 03:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by giomat

Code:

kwriteconfig5 --file powermanagementprofilesrc --group AC --group SuspendSession --key idleTime --delete
kwriteconfig5 --file powermanagementprofilesrc --group AC --group SuspendSession --key suspendThenHibernate --delete
kwriteconfig5 --file powermanagementprofilesrc --group AC --group SuspendSession --key suspendType --delete

That works perfectly, and I've updated the Install guides. Thank you!!

giomat · 01-17-2024, 06:45 AM

Happy to help, thanks for all the work