#1042868 kde-plasma-desktop: KDE Lockscreen Wakes Monitor up After It Is Turned Off via Escape Button and kscreen-doctor

Package:
kde-plasma-desktop
Source:
kde-plasma-desktop
Description:
KDE Plasma Desktop and minimal set of applications
Submitter:
Oliver
Date:
2023-08-02 01:39:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1042868#5
Date:
2023-08-02 01:35:52 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

When the screen is locked, either via timeout or shortcut, I am unable to turn off the monitor. Seconds after pressing Escape, the lockscreen turns the monitor back on. I also tried to run a command that listens to the lock screen event,
```
kscreen-doctor -d off
```
but this too, cannot prevent the monitor from waking itself after it is turned off.

Related posts:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422455
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462695

After reading the above posts, I think the problem might lie in the package `kidletime`, since this patch claims to fix the problem:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462695#c40
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kf5-kidletime/c/2a096ad8d7e9ab9a838156021991d86e76971117?branch=rawhide