On Tuesday, 16 September 2025 21:26:04 British Summer Time Philip Webb wrote: > 250916 Matt Connell wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 09:34 +0100, Michael wrote: > >> 'kde-plasma/plasma-meta' should install powerdevil as part > >> of the plasma desktop, so you don't have to install it individually. > > > > They were probably trying to minimalize the install footprint for KDE > > I too expected plasma-meta to be the "kitchen sink" meta package > > for all of the KDE applications, but it is not. > > It installs a few things I don't use, > > but I didn't have to bother with the cherry-picking step. > > Less friction; I have more disk space and compile time than I have > > patience. > Yes, I noticed that '-meta' didn't install everything ; > anyway, I use an @-file when install/updating KDE + similar. > > I was a bit shocked 1st time, when I left the machine to go to sleep > while I did the same myself, then when I woke up & came back to it, > I found that the fans weren't running, but that's part of computer sleep > too. There a nice account of what it does in 'syslog'.
You can configure it to turn off the monitor first (Display and Brightness/ Turn off screen) and then suspend to RAM at a later stage after prolonged inactivity (Suspend Session).
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