[RESPONDED] Fedora Dimming after one minute

Framework Laptop 13 Linux
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One thing that bugs me with Fedora 39 is that the screen dims after only one minute. This is on an AMD. I have the power settings on Power Savings, but Automatic Screen Brightness and Dim Screen are turned off. What do I need to do?

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Maybe try disabling dimm on power saving options on settings?

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As I mentioned, Iā€™ve already done that.

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Ah right, sorry missed that, are you on latest BIOS version?

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Sounds like the dimming is still enabled. So long as you are on officially supported GNOME Fedora 39 Workstation, this should help.

Run:

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim

If it comes back as true, try this:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim false

then check again:

gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim

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Iā€™m using the current bios.

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I checked, and it came back as false. Itā€™s still doing it.

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It looks like, when youā€™re on power saving mode the dimm is overriden to take effect even when disabled.

Maybe try xset -dpms

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This is what I got:

server does not have extension for -dpms option

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How about via dconf?

org->gnome->settings->daemon->plugins->power->sleep-inactive-ac-timeout

set sleep-inactive-ac-timeout to 300 (seconds) set sleep-inactive-ac-type to ā€˜logoutā€™

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That was confusing but helpful. I didnā€™t realize dconf was dconf editor that needed to be installed. Also, why did you put ā€˜logoutā€™? I replaced it with ā€˜nothingā€™ for both AC and battery. It did seem to have done the trick.

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Actually, it didnā€™t fix it. Any other ideas?

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It feels like by design, and inherent with GNOME, are you open to other Desktop Environments? that may offer more options, or play with non-saving power mode which wonā€™t dimm your screen.

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I had this same issue, searching for a solution lead me to KDEā€¦

Here you can see the response to a user is that all is behaving as expected, user settings are not respected in this mode. I think this is one of those things like brightness increments that are not user adjustable unless you want to build it yourself.

Seems they took inspiration from Appleā€™s ā€œlow power modeā€ which also overrides user screen timeout settings and forces it to 30s.

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Thanks for sharing the link! The last message in that thread has useful advice. I was able to prevent automatic dimming in power mode in Fedora 41 by running the following in the Terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 100

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