Monitors turn back on immediately

[rosscarlson]

Have a multimonitor setup, when I either click on the tray icon or keyboard shortcut all monitors go to sleep but then 2-3 seconds later come right back on. I assume there is some app doing this as I'm not touching the keyboard or mouse, is there any way to keep the screen asleep until I press another keyboard shortcut? That way if either my cat were to step on the keyboard/mouse or some app tried to bring the screen back on it wouldn't be able to until I pressed that sequence.

[NiloGabriel]

thats happen the same with me

[MIkel-mirustudio]

Same to me, any solution?

[Thynix]

How many seconds delay do you have before the sleep takes effect? I was having the problem sometimes with a delay of 0 seconds, but with 1 second I haven't seen it happen. Maybe the keys you're pressing to put the screen to sleep are also waking it up?

[JBix2]

I'm having a similar problem. The monitor comes back on at exactly five minutes. I am starting the program As Administrator. The Turn Off Timer is set to 1 second. Also the value I'm putting in the config file for the shortcut keys is not transferring to the GUI. The value that works is what is in the GUI (Ctrl+S), which I can't figure out how to get to match what I have in the config file (Ctrl+Shift+S). Nonetheless the bigger problem is that the monitor comes back on after five minutes.

[adrianlungu]

@JBix2 use the GUI to set the shortcut, the app should save it afterwards automatically. Just press the textbox and input the shortcut you desire.

As for the monitors turning back on, some event is definitely triggering a wake.

This gave me an idea if it's possible to keep a lot of events that wake up monitors, that way at least it should make it easier to pinpoint the cause. I'll look into that.

Any user input (keyboard, mouse, trackpad, Bluetooth; even accidental) will trigger a wake.

Video apps, including Chrome, can also trigger a wake.

[stormychel]

Hi, first I want to thank the developer for all his efforts on this! The turning back on happens on my system too and is triggered by crypto mining with NiceHash. This mining is the direct reason I am using ScreenSleep, as my Iiyama monitor has 3 inputs and auto-selects the active one. So I trigger ScreenSleep, then quickly wake one of my other computers to take over the display, which usually works, but sometimes the PC comes back on before my other computer is seen by my monitor. It would be nice to have a way of really forcing display sleep, but that might be beyond the scope of this project and I am very happy with the currently functionality anyway. Thanks, Michel Storms Freelance Apple Developer BTW 0765.873.990 www.michelstorms.com

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On 10 Jan 2022, at 08:59, Adrian Lungu ***@***.***> wrote:  @JBix2 use the GUI to set the shortcut, the app should save it afterwards automatically. Just press the textbox and input the shortcut you desire. As for the monitors turning back on, some event is definitely triggering a wake. This gave me an idea if it's possible to keep a lot of events that wake up monitors, that way at least it should make it easier to pinpoint the cause. I'll look into that. Any user input (keyboard, mouse, trackpad, Bluetooth; even accidental) will trigger a wake. Video apps, including Chrome, can also trigger a wake. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.

[BourgeoisDirk]

Same problem. Had it before on the Desktop Computer, and after some Windows Update the screens went back to Sleep as they should.
Now I've migrated to a laptop, Windows Update shows all is up-to-date, yet I am experiencing this Same issue again.
Had hoped that maybe this time this App would force sleep em, but the screens instantly turn back on. :x