So I’ve set up pop os, everything went smoothly. But I have a problem - My pc is set to turn screens off after 15 mins, also to lock itself. But when it does that, my monitors shut down for a second, then start again so I can see it’s locked, then after few seconds monitors are blank but not turned off, led indicator is active and so is backlight panel.

It bothers me because I don’t want to physically turn off my monitors every time I go afk.

Can anyone tell me where to set this up? Thx

  • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s a fun (hahaha not) part of the hdmi protocol. I have the same monitor combo and the same issue with the monitors. I find that turning one off fixes it (usually Samsung since my Asus monitor completely shuts down for power saving) but I also remember at least one of my distros not having this issue. Unfortunately it’s not Ubuntu which I’m on at the moment so I can’t help but either Fedora, Debian or Manjaro didn’t have the issue.

    • methodicalaspect
      2·
      1 year ago

      Happens to me with three Dell displays attached to an AMD GPU with DisplayPort. Distro is EndeavourOS. Whenever it happens there happens to be a kernel update available and, after installing it and rebooting, the problem goes away for a few days.

      • SeckoObsadene@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ll have to fix it myself then. It’s weird how it works , even on the old thinkpad is the same.

    • NixDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Never thought about HDMI being the issue. My new monitors are display port and have been working fine. So a HDMI bug is probably the cause