Raspberry Pi OS • Raspberry Pi 5 Screen Blanker

I've seen several posts on the above topics and I wanted to submit my fix just in case it helps. If this isn't helpful or accurate please delete it.

Firstly I couldn't find the wayfire.ini so I ran raspi-config from the command line and enabled wayfire.

Option 6
Option A6
Option W2

I rebooted and found the wayfire.ini and edited it and added the [idle] section

~/.config/wayfire.ini

[idle]
dpms_timeout=60

This didn't seem to work so I read more and concluded I needed to edit the file below.

/usr/share/wayfire/metadata/idle.xml

I replaced this section (-1) with (600)
<option name="dpms_timeout" type="int">
<_short>DPMS timeout</_short>
<_long>Enters power saving mode after the specified seconds of inactivity. Setting the value to **-1** disables power saving.</_long>
<default>-1</default>

<option name="dpms_timeout" type="int">
<_short>DPMS timeout</_short>
<_long>Enters power saving mode after the specified seconds of inactivity. Setting the value to **-1** disables power saving.</_long>
<default>600</default>

It started working but it appears the wayfire.ini takes precedence.

Statistics: Posted by Baneen — Mon Dec 16, 2024 8:40 pm

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