Hi!
How it works?!
They are overriding each-others settings? In System Setting I have 1 profile - Powersave. In lithium I have 4. Ahh and Display power control...
How to apply these profiles? Is it working or I need to install KPowersave and delete Powerdevil and Lithium?

You may have to remove all other power managers, but powerdevil to avoid config clashes. I once had clashes between guidance and powerdevil settings (screen brightness and button actions). So powerdevil (Power Management in System Settings) should do alone.

LinuxIsInnovation wrote:You may have to remove all other power managers, but powerdevil to avoid config clashes. I once had clashes between guidance and powerdevil settings (screen brightness and button actions). So powerdevil (Power Management in System Settings) should do alone.

Okay! Just removed the Lithium plasmoid. I hope it'll work now.
Thanks!

I'm checked Let PowerDevil Manage screen powersaving in System Settings -> Power Management, but PowerDevil doesn't want to manage my screen powersaving.
Under profiles in screen section Enable DPM is checked out, standby, sus, power off all set to 7 minutes but it doesn't work.

Power Devil usually refuses to do anything if you have any other power managers running. on OpenSuSE, there is a background service "powersaved" which has no GUI.

check to see if your distro has something like that. Once you have switched it off, you will need to restart PowerDevil in System Settings > Service Manager

bcooksley wrote:Power Devil usually refuses to do anything if you have any other power managers running. on OpenSuSE, there is a background service "powersaved" which has no GUI.

check to see if your distro has something like that. Once you have switched it off, you will need to restart PowerDevil in System Settings > Service Manager

I'm checked that and my powersaved daemon isn't running. It's disable also in Runlevel Editor in YaST.

By default there are a few profiles.... Is the right one activated? Aggressive Powersave is selected when you open "Edit Profiles" first I believe.

bcooksley wrote:By default there are a few profiles.... Is the right one activated? Aggressive Powersave is selected when you open "Edit Profiles" first I believe.

For me Performance. This is the profile what I'm first added to the profile list.
Enable DPM checked out. Standby, susp, power off set to 5, 7, 10 min. And the Let PowerDevil Manage screen powersaving is also enabled. On the Capabilities page DPMS is OK.

There is bug report about this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165368

There are problems with power management and KDE4 (or screensaver or ??).

cybertaz wrote:There is bug report about this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165368

There are problems with power management and KDE4 (or screensaver or ??).

I can't figure out anything about this bug report, except one thing: it's buggy. But I knew that before. It isn't depends on screen saver's configuration. It could be enabled or disabled the DPMS in PowerDevil isn't working.

The work-around in the bug report (disable screensaver) worked for me. My screen now just blanks after the appropriate time.

Have you tried that?

cybertaz wrote:The work-around in the bug report (disable screensaver) worked for me. My screen now just blanks after the appropriate time.

Have you tried that?

Yes, I'm tried almost everything. Just to compare our configuration:

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systemsettings: - Desktop
            |
            + Screen Saver > Start automatically : Disabled;
         - Display
            |
            + Power Control > Enable Display power management : Disabled;

         - Power Management
            |
            + General Settings > Let PowerDevil manage screen powersaving : Enabled;
            + Edit Profiles
               |
               + Performance (custom profile)
                  |
                  + Screen > Enable Display power management : Enabled;
                        > Stand by, suspend, power off | after 1, 2, 3 min;

No answers?!
Any suggestions?
Is this picture confusing? I can post another one. But that will be in xml! haha

in systemsettings->Display->Power control->Enable Display Power Management->ENABLED

For me this works.

Okay, that's also working for me. But here you are setting the DPMS globally. I need to get work those profiles with custom timeout in PowerDevil.
BTW, thanks!