What is kded?

[Derek Trotter]

Thanks anyhow Michael.

I decided to upgrade to 14.04 and turns out that in the course of doing 
so the problem was fixed.

On 03/31/2014 10:28 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> oops! the music file-loop just prevents it from sleeping. sorry.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Derek Trotter 
> <expat.arizonan at gmail.com <mailto:expat.arizonan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     On 03/30/2014 11:58 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>>     You can try running the command:
>>
>>     xset -dpms
>>
>>     make sure to turn it back on after you are done watching your
>>     movie with:
>>
>>     xset +dpms
>>
>>     You can check the status of dpms with:
>>
>>     xset -q
>>
>>     DPMS being turned off will keep the system from turning off the
>>     monitor after a period of time, but it won't keep a screen saver
>>     from coming on.
>>
>>     You can also change the time limits before things occur, so you
>>     can set it for longer than 2 hours to keep it from kicking in
>>     during movies but still have it shut off the monitor after a very
>>     long period of "no use".
>>
>>     The reason I found this command is that some video players seem
>>     to turn off DPMS but if they crash during play they don't turn it
>>     back on so my monitors were staying on all night.
>>
>>     As a result I created an icon that not only turns DPMS (back) on,
>>     it also tells the system to instantly put the monitors into sleep
>>     mode.
>>
>>     Brian Cluff
>>
>>
>>     On 03/30/2014 10:15 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>>>     What lead me to discover this is that this beast keeps shutting the
>>>     monitor off after so many minutes of inactivity. It doesn't
>>>     count me
>>>     watching a movie as activity.  So I have to remember every few
>>>     minutes
>>>     to move the mouse.  Until I get this kded thing fixed, does
>>>     anyone know
>>>     another way to stop this beast from turning off the monitor?
>>>
>>>     Thanks
>>>
>>>     On 03/30/2014 09:23 PM, Harold wrote:
>>>>     I believe you are looking at the KDE Daemon
>>>>
>>>>     See if this gives any clues:
>>>>
>>>>     https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54120
>>>>
>>>>     harold
>>>>
>>>>     On 03/30/2014 09:19 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>>>>>     I've got Kubuntu 13.10 and KDE 4.11.3. Today I went into system
>>>>>     settings, then power management.  I get an error message saying
>>>>>     "Power management configuration module could not be loaded.  The
>>>>>     power management service appears not to be running.  This can be
>>>>>     solved by starting or scheduling it inside "Startup and shutdown"
>>>>>
>>>>>     So I go to startup and shutdown, then I click service manager.
>>>>>     I get
>>>>>     a message saying Unable to contact KDED.
>>>>>
>>>>>     I have no idea what KDED is or how to fix this.  Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>>     Thanks
>>>>>
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