Weird, I don't seem to have this issue.. I watch movies on the Jellyfin App on Game Mode and never had issue... maybe I disabled the screen dimming, but at least it is not putting itself to sleep
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Im guessing you disabled it? On mine the screen dims and it will go to sleep based on the settings/timings.
Just checked, it is enabled, 15 m when plugged in and 5 min when unpplugged, I'll need to try it again later, for now it is plugged in and plugged to a TV to watch movies
At least that's promising. Please let me know if you did anything different.
I just installed in desktop mode via discovery (the flat pack version I think). Then i added the 'game' to the steam menu and that was it. I launch the 'game' in steam mode.
If there is something else you're doing I'd love to know because I can't find anything else on Google. Thanks.
Just tried again and the screen does dimm when unpplugged...
Kodi does the same, but I believe that is just how game mode works, it only uses inputs to determine if you are active as otherwise any time you had a game or any app open it would never dim the screen.
In desktop mode KDE handles all of that and should figure out if you are watching something or not. It also has the ability to turn the screen completely off while keeping the deck on for those long game downloads - assuming you disable the auto sleep in power options.
Add it to Steam and launch from there
It is added to steam. I launch it from steam while in game mode.
I've noticed the same with the EmuDeck "streaming" add-ons - it's just something to add Netflix/HBO/etc as games to the Deck
I have the same issue, also no idea how to fix it.
I did recently discover that touching the joysticks or trackpads is enough to un-dimm the screen again, you don't have to press any buttons and make all the UI elements pop up again.