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How to set "suspend when inactive for: " power settings without xfce4-power-manager so that my desktop doesnt sleep automatically

Hey everyone.

Basically I need to do what the title says. I did have xfce4-power-manager installed and had it set there (had the setting disabled so that it wouldn't suspend after inactive), but xfce4-notifyd was creating problems with dunst which I installed and setup last night, so I removed xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-logind.

However now after a few minutes of not doing anything my PC sleeps. There must be a setting somewhere I can edit which is the same thing xfce4 uses to implement this, no? Either a file or another power manager software which will not cause problems with my dunst.

Thanks in advance for all your help and suggestions!

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  • Caffeine works good for me on i3

    • From what Ive read caffeine seems to be for temporarily disabling suspend functionality in a specific context. e.g. when running a certain task. It doesn't disable the automatic suspend functionality in general, which is what I want. I have a "sleep" key on my keyboard which I use when I need to, but all other times I need my PC to be awake.

      • It stops the auto sleep function for me when enabled, it has the option to be “on” and “on when x app is running”

        You could even tell it to never let your system sleep when your wm is running

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