# "Manually block sleep and screen locking" not working anymore
**URL:** https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981
**Category:** KDE Plasma
**Created:** [March 20, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981 "2023-03-20T22:05:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/1 "2023-03-20T22:05:46Z")
the Computer goes to sleep despite above setting beeing active.
Has anyone an idea how to approach the problem?
greetings andy
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### Author:  [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/2 "2023-03-20T22:45:27Z")
Is this the KDE Plasma desktop?
Does this seem similar to the problem you have? [https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/11sny87/sleep\_and\_screen\_locking\_not\_working/](https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/11sny87/sleep_and_screen_locking_not_working/)
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### Author:  [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/3 "2023-03-21T18:29:20Z")
yes, it is also my suspicion, this is a random plasma crash…maybe I should utilize plasma crash log something 🙂 ?
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### Author:  [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/4 "2023-03-21T20:10:32Z")
You can. Was it working before? @CookieSource might be more familiar with KDE, but if the checkbox does not do what it says, it could be a KDE Plasma bug which should be reported.
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### Author:  [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/5 "2023-03-21T20:34:38Z")
> [@shivanandvp](#):
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> Was it working before?
yes … now I googled for that problem, but nothing found yet. My temp. solution is to deactivate power save in the settings, which luckily works fine …
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### Author:  [@shivanandvp](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/shivanandvp)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/6 "2023-03-21T21:01:10Z")
Now that you mention power saving, I wonder if they intentionally changed the behavior. In any case, @CookieSource is on KDE Plasma, so they can test to see if the same problem is present.
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### Author:  [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/7 "2023-03-21T22:22:44Z")
thank you all, I am very curious, even if it is a minor problem still it is a constantly used feature 🙂
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### Author:  [@CookieSource](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/CookieSource)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/8 "2023-03-22T06:59:54Z")
I will have a look in a bit when I’m at work
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### Author:  [@CookieSource](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/CookieSource)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/9 "2023-03-23T12:33:30Z")
I looked into this and I don’t have this issue so it’s most likely a driver/device thing
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### Author:  [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/10 "2023-03-23T20:38:59Z")
thanks so far : - ) I do not have the problem permanently, but like random wise
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### Author:  [@ycom1](https://rebornos.discourse.group/u/ycom1)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://rebornos.discourse.group/t/manually-block-sleep-and-screen-locking-not-working-anymore/981/11 "2023-04-30T13:47:32Z")
update: further, I found out, that the crash happens as I switch on my KVM device