My monitor keeps turning on by itself 3 or 4 per hour at night. Displays the splash screen then turns off. Keeps waking me up. I have fedora 27 installed. The only setting I have changed recently is accessibility , I turned on large text. I don't see how that would cause the monitor to come on randomly. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
There may be slight movements with the mouse/trackpad. Disable the mouse before you leave next time. Perhaps that will fix it.
Maybe there are some weird notifications getting triggered? Try checking logs and report back.
I agree with you that there slightly movements because I have a moving blanket covering my desktop as not to scratch the surface. Maybe the fibers of the blanket are triggering the laser mouse. It's quite an old mouse maybe 15 years, it's a Logitech. But would that be enough to wake the computer?
I checked the logs (dmesg & journalctl) right after the screen would wake up. I did not notice anything, although these logs are very hard to understand, I could have easily missed it. Is there anything in particular I should look for? Thank you for help.
You can try disabling wakeups from mouse movements and see if that does the trick.
Asked: 2018-04-06 04:16:28 -0500
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Which desktop environment are you using? Gnome?
If your compute is powered off - how would that behaviour be related to Fedora or any other operating system?
The desktop environment I am using is gnome version 3.26.2. The computer is not powered off, it is on idleing. The monitor is off, being managed by the os.
What do mean by idleing? It's on, right, with a screen saver on, or is it in standby?