Having trouble with screen on and off? Here are some tips that could help

[captsi]

Thank you for the tutorial, it solved my issues of sending the screen to sleep at night. For whatever reasons, I had to use wayland-0 and HDMI-A-2 on my installation.

[mumblebaj]

@captsi HDMI-A-2 is probably because you plugged into 2. Glad it helped you though.

[sdetweil]

@captsi said in Having trouble with screen on and off? Here are some tips that could help:

I had to use wayland-0 and HDMI-A-2

wayland is the software screen interface,
HDMI- is the hardware screen interface

[langejos]

@mumblebaj

Works great, but when the monitor switches back on, chromium does not start maximized and shows the infobar, both of which are managed in the [autostart] section of wayfire.ini. Is there a way to get the MM display back just as when the Pi launches fresh?

[sdetweil]

@langejos switch back to x11 in raspi-config

[Gejakem]

For me I needed to use wayland-0 on a RPI5 using the ribbon-display cable.
From the wlr-randr i got this

DSI-1 “(null) (null) (DSI-1)”
Physical size: 154x86 mm
Enabled: yes
Modes:
800x480 px, 60.028999 Hz (preferred, current)
Position: 368,332
Transform: 90
Scale: 1.000000

So I used DSI-1 instead of HDMI.
Also I removed the --mode information since i got something like “Mode 800x480 not recognized”, but apparently my display defaults to that.

[BKeyport]

@mumblebaj Course, I just switched back to X11 for now. 🙃

[mumblebaj]

@langejos I am assuming you ran wlr-randr prior to creating the scripts to obtain your mirrors current display settings and then using that as input in the mon.sh?

[reviewsfornerds]

Hello all and thank you for all the suggestions. I apologize as I never got followup notifications of your responses.

I ended up reverting back to the original desktop as I did not feel like fighting to change everything.

Again, thank you all for your time and help.

[langejos]

@sdetweil Yes, I did! I tried switching to x-11 and adjusting all parameters, but ended up switching back to wayland which works fine with a scheduled shut-down in the evening. Thank you once again for taking the time to lead me through this!