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Firefox idle time + dpms enabled

Posted: 13 May 2015, 13:21
by Debadr
Hi all,

In my configuration file i activated the Firefox idle time to 4 min and the DPMS which is 10 min by default.
From what i remarked after testing:
Browsing and doing stuff on Firefox => idle + DPMS working every time i did not move mouse or touch keyboard for 4min for idle or 10 for DPMS.
SSH trough the machine, login, do some commands and logging out from ssh => IDLE + DPMS worked before ssh, ain't working after the ssh login+logout.
VNC (interactive) trough the machine, login, browsing and logout => IDLE + DPMS NOK as ssh connection.

Is it normal because of the process running on the system and not being killed properly ? or it's my hardware ?

Re: Firefox idle time + dpms enabled

Posted: 14 May 2015, 08:41
by fanthom
firefox idle works only if mouse/keyboard activity is detected. if there is no activity then firefox wont be restarted (no point and we can save on CPU cycles).
ssh should not be recognized and input activity. vnc yes (i think - never checked myself).

Re: Firefox idle time + dpms enabled

Posted: 15 May 2015, 06:47
by Debadr
fanthom wrote:firefox idle works only if mouse/keyboard activity is detected. if there is no activity then firefox wont be restarted (no point and we can save on CPU cycles).
ssh should not be recognized and input activity. vnc yes (i think - never checked myself).
Hi Fanthom,

I am totally agree with the saving CPU cycles + energy, but when the PKE starts up showing the browser with the homepage, i touch the mouse + keyboard to do some tests (opening other windows etc ..)... after that if i don't touch it anymore it works (IDLE + DPMS) and reworks after doing it again. But if i do the same but just with a simple ssh putty login + logout, it wont work anymore, same as vnc (login + logout).

Hopefully the PKE's startup is too fast (15 sec in my case / 20 sec if the conf.txt changes which is GREAT :good: ! ) so i made a PS to all my mates to restart the machine after doing ssh or vnc trough it :)

Re: Firefox idle time + dpms enabled

Posted: 15 May 2015, 08:15
by fanthom
Interesting - will check this.

Thank you.