[Feature Request] Power Manager: More than 5 Hr 50 Min for "When inactive for"

omui omui at protonmail.com
Tue Oct 20 01:54:27 CEST 2020


Hi Team,

Thanks for the hard work! May I have a suggestion?

If we go to: Settings --> Power Manager --> System, under "System power saving", the maximum value we can set for "When inactive for" is 5 hours 50 minutes:

Can I request to increase this value to allow any value, up to perhaps a crazy number like 31 days or even 365 days?

For example, I personally would like it to be 8 hrs (as it's a standard work duration) on a workstation that also serves as a VM host, where sometimes not a single mouse/keyboard input is entered for a whole day, even though on another day there might be a lot of mouse/keyboard inputs.

In fact, I would argue other people might want to have even long hours, 16 hours or perhaps 72 hours straight before suspend. It's probably an edge case but who knows, maybe someone only needs to work for 25 hours a week but they don't want to frequently go to the machine and wake it up during that 25 hours of work.

Therefore, just about any number of hours/minutes may have its merit.

Of course, I understand that in those cases, Wake-on-Lan is also an alternative solution.

Just a thought, if it's not worth the trouble, no worries.

Thank you very much and I'm extremely thankful everyday when I'm using the Xfce desktop.

Love you guys,

omui

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