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Awake not shutting off after the user logs out

Open tycoon1807 opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Description of the new feature / enhancement

It would be great if awake was automatically deactivated as soon as a user logs out and goes to the lock screen

Scenario when this would be used?

I interrupt my work several times a day and lock my PC with a key combination. The PC then of course stays on according to my energy saving settings and that uses unnecessary power. I want the PC to always stay on when I'm logged in, but awake would be great as soon as I log in After signing out, he is welcome to go to sleep

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tycoon1807 avatar Nov 04 '23 11:11 tycoon1807

This could be a setting as I think not everyone wants that behavior.

htcfreek avatar Nov 09 '23 06:11 htcfreek

For me the perfect option would be "keep awake until locked". Could be added to this menu. image

eltsu7 avatar Dec 27 '23 09:12 eltsu7

I would like this option to be available as well, but in my case I would like to it to stay on untill I lock the system. After I log back in I want it to be turned off. The usecase is that I am working from home. I have two computers there, when I'm working on the second computer the first is inactive, thus it will lock and go to sleep pretty quick. Unless I use Awake. However, when I manually lock it, I want it to reset Awake to "Off". If I pick up my device and go to a public space or the office I want the Awake setting to be disabled when I log back in. It's easy to forget to disable Awake, and that's a security risk.

edewaal97 avatar Apr 05 '24 07:04 edewaal97

I just found this issue because I had the opposite problem: awake did not keep my monitors on while locked.

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In the system tray I confirmed Awake is still activated for another 34 minutes.

samrueby avatar Sep 29 '25 17:09 samrueby