Prevent mint from sleeping

[Tharbad]

Hello,

Mint version: 13 x32

I want to prevent my system from going into sleep or suspend mode when it's idle. I don't see any possible setting like that in the power manager (I can only chose between suspend and sleep).

Thanks

[stratus_ss]

Which desktop are you using?

Mate? Cinnamon? Gnome? KDE? XFCE?

Are you sure the computer is suspended and not just turning off the monitor?

[wyrdoak]

Might try changing you screen-saver settings also. Last resort, make a .sh file and run it when you don't want your screen to sleep.

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#!/bin/bash
xset -dpms;xset s off

[Tharbad]

Screen saver is off.

Desktop is Xfce

[wyrdoak]

Screen saver is off.

Desktop is Xfce

Have you move your "Put the computer to sleep when inactive for:" slider over to "Never"

[Tharbad]

Yes.

[stratus_ss]

So I actually have had to remove the xscreensaver before on some computers to prevent it from turning off the monitor even though there the options were set properly in the screensaver.

Have you tried wyrdoak's suggestion? I have tested this myself by ssh'ing into the computer in question and running this (had to fiddle with the screen settings but the same idea)

[Tharbad]

The option wyrdoak is talking about is already set to never.

I'm not talking about monitor going to sleep but about the OS going to sleep (it's a home server).
Most of the time the screen is off anyway.

Just to make it clear - 2 days ago the system was shutdown when I woke up in the morning. Since then it still up.
As this is a new installation I assumed it wasn't a crash. The hardware is OK (This computer was running Mint 11 KDE which is now out of support). There was no power outage at that time. So I'm assuming the system went to sleep.