> On 5 May 2023, at 21:48, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 4:04 PM Tim via users
> <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> Tim:
>>>> Are you falling foul of the recent Gnome change that puts a machine
>>>> to sleep if it considers that it's been idle for about 15 minutes?
>>>>
>>>> One of the all-time *DUMB* moves by Gnome.
>>
>> George N. White III:
>>> Not at all.  Large organizations are trying to reduce power
>>> consumption by workstations sitting idle overnight, during meetings,
>>> lunch breaks, etc.
>>
>> And what do you think they're going to do?  Undo that setting, so that
>> they don't have to deal with employees annoyed at having to wake up
>> their PCs all day long because they don't actually use the PC
>> constantly to keep it awake, but do need to refer to it a lot, and the
>> wait for resumption while trying to keep a customer on the phone is
>> being a pain, an inability for IT to remotely manage PCs when they
>> want, and debugging PCs that don't wake from suspend/hibernation.
>>
>> Greenwashing...
>
> The most annoying thing (to me) was, Fedora maintainers did not make
> the setting default for new installs. Instead, they changed the
> setting for existing installs, like  a F37 -> F38 system upgrade.

I read elsewhere that the setting change is to the default.
If you had ever changed the power settings the default is not used
apparently.

The default is used on new installs, and because it is the default also
applies to upgrades, as i say, if you had not changed the default power
settings.

I am not a gnome used so have no direct experience of this change.

Barry

>
> It really annoyed me when a couple of my machines went to sleep and I
> had to drive across town to wake them and reconfigure them.
>
> Jeff