qemu client blocks host from inactivity screen power off

[Tom Sullivan]

Hello!

Please reply to me personally (as well as the list if need be) as I have 
not subscribed.

Something (Qemu?) is making my Debian 11, LXDE guest unable to power off 
the (virtual) monitor. In a fashion similar to VirtualBox on other 
machines, this inhibits the host from sensing inactivity and powering 
off the host monitor. Searching your docs and wiki and general searching 
does not reveal the cause. Tried without success:

searching all over

installing xfce4-power-manager (while still running LXDE). It appears to 
function in the GUI, but it does not have the desired effect.

systemctl enable upower.service

systemctl restart upower.service

pause the guest

click on options so it hides the guest monitor

minimize the guest

using command line xset, but it does not seem to allow for lack of dpms 
enabling, but I do not know how to solve that one.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Tom Sullivan


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