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I would like for my PC to shutdown after a certain amount of time of inactivity, like the way a screensaver is triggered, but i want it to completely shutdown instead of locking or showing a slideshow of pictures. I found some settings in kubuntu that allow this but only have a maximum range of 6 hours. I'd like to be able to customize that time to anything i want it to be. Is this possible? Would it be possible to edit the file in kubuntu where that value is stored to put in a value that i want? I am using Kubuntu 20.04.

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  • Please edit your question and add the version and flavor of Ubuntu you are using.
    – user68186
    Sep 17, 2022 at 20:04
  • Fixed. Sorry for the confusion. I thought all the Ubuntu variants were the same. That the flavor was just the GUI interface. I didn't realize there are underlying differences between them.
    – hsupqkrkzt
    Sep 17, 2022 at 21:53

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In dconf-editor under org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power set sleep-inactive-ac-timeout value (in seconds), and sleep-inactive-ac-type to shutdown.

Or via terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout <seconds>
gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type 'shutdown'

replace <seconds> part with value in seconds.

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  • This did not work for me. I tried running the terminal commands first, testing with 60 seconds value. I did not get an error, but the PC did not shutdown. I then installed dconf-editor and applied the settings there. The default values of 1200 and suspend were present when i checked the editor. I changed the values to 60 seconds and shutdown, but again this didn't work. Being that I am using Kubuntu, do i need to install something else to make these settings work?
    – hsupqkrkzt
    Sep 17, 2022 at 19:38
  • oh, kubuntu... gsettings are for gnome. My bad I didn't registered you use KDE.
    – Mlocik97
    Sep 17, 2022 at 19:40

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