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Re: Why is idle not detected?

From Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Why is idle not detected?
Date 2021-01-09 00:30 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 9:47 PM Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian 10 and sometimes idle is not detected correctly on my
> (KDE) system and the desktop is not going to suspend.
>
> A typical candidate is a not correctly terminating vlc process which does not
> have a screen anymore but is still alive. Sometimes I cannot find out what
> causes the problem.
>
> Is there a way to find out what is the holding back the idle detection?
>
> I am thinking of something like doing a dry-run of the idle detection by cron
> with a report every few minutes and log the report (without actually
> triggering suspend if idle is detected). Whenever idle is not detected
> properly, the log file would tell the reason.
>
> Any idea or hint is welcome.

For me it is ALWAYS vlc, and it has been doing this at random for the
past year or two. No solution other than "killall -KILL vlc" now and
then and especially before leaving for the night. I don't know what
triggers this behaviour, it doesn't always leave stray processes
around.

Maybe some day I'm annoyed enough to file a bug report. This happened
with different GPUs, different monitors, Wayland vs. X11, and I see
this on Gnome in Debian testing.

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Why is idle not detected? Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de> - 2021-01-06 21:50 +0100
  Re: Why is idle not detected? Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2021-01-09 00:30 +0100
    Re: Why is idle not detected? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-09 07:30 +0100
  Re: Why is idle not detected? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-09 07:30 +0100
  Re: Why is idle not detected? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2021-01-09 10:00 +0100
  potus@lists.debian.org Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2021-01-09 15:30 +0100
    Re: potus@lists.debian.org Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-01-09 15:40 +0100
      Re: potus@lists.debian.org Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2021-01-09 18:50 +0100
    Re: potus@lists.debian.org mm <maiski@maiski.net> - 2021-01-09 16:10 +0100
      Re: potus@lists.debian.org Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2021-01-09 22:10 +0100
        Re: potus@lists.debian.org mm <maiski@maiski.net> - 2021-01-09 23:30 +0100
          Re: potus@lists.debian.org grumpy@mailfence.com - 2021-01-09 23:40 +0100
            Re: potus@lists.debian.org Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2021-01-10 01:50 +0100
              Re: potus@lists.debian.org Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2021-01-10 09:50 +0100
            Re: potus@lists.debian.org mm <maiski@maiski.net> - 2021-01-10 16:40 +0100
            Re: potus@lists.debian.org Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2021-01-12 10:40 +0100
          Re: potus@lists.debian.org "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2021-01-10 10:00 +0100
            Re: potus@lists.debian.org mm <maiski@maiski.net> - 2021-01-10 16:40 +0100
              Re: potus@lists.debian.org Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-01-10 23:50 +0100
                Re: potus@lists.debian.org grumpy@mailfence.com - 2021-01-11 00:20 +0100
                Re: potus@lists.debian.org mm <maiski@maiski.net> - 2021-01-11 18:10 +0100
                Re: potus@lists.debian.org Thomas Amm <debili@open-email.net> - 2021-01-12 01:00 +0100
                Re: potus@lists.debian.org mm <maiski@maiski.net> - 2021-01-12 19:30 +0100
    Re: potus@lists.debian.org Larry Dighera <LDighera@att.net> - 2021-01-09 18:20 +0100
      Re: potus@lists.debian.org John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2021-01-09 19:10 +0100
        Re: potus@lists.debian.org John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2021-01-09 22:00 +0100
          Re: potus@lists.debian.org Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-01-09 23:20 +0100
            Re: potus@lists.debian.org Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-11 17:10 +0100
        Re: potus@lists.debian.org Larry Dighera <LDighera@att.net> - 2021-01-09 22:00 +0100
        Re: potus@lists.debian.org Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-10 01:30 +0100
          Re: potus@lists.debian.org Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-01-11 00:00 +0100
            Re: potus@lists.debian.org Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-11 00:20 +0100
              Hi performance computing [was: potus blah blah] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-01-11 10:40 +0100
                Re: Hi performance computing [was: potus blah blah] Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-01-11 16:30 +0100
                Re: Hi performance computing [was: potus blah blah] Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-11 17:20 +0100
      Re: potus@lists.debian.org Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2021-01-09 19:40 +0100
        Re: potus@lists.debian.org John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2021-01-09 22:00 +0100
          Re: potus@lists.debian.org Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2021-01-11 12:30 +0100
            Re: potus@lists.debian.org Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiewicz@jotel.com.pl> - 2021-01-12 11:00 +0100

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