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Nathaniel M. Beaver
Asked: 2019-10-20 05:52:16 +0800 CST

Accidentally set 'sleep-inactive-ac-timeout' too low

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My desktop is on AC power and is set to suspend after a certain amount of time.

$ gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type
'suspend'

Then I ran this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 5

and now it is going into power suspend every 5 seconds (instead of 5 minutes). I should have run

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 300

but it's too late now.

Any way to get myself out of this situation?

power-management suspend dconf gsettings

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Brute solution

    ... But what wil work anyway is to start up with a live usb, navigate to /home/yourname/.config in your installed ubuntu (inside File System in the left pane of nautilus) and delete or rename the folder dconf.

    On next startup, a new dconf database will be created, with default settings. You'll lose quite a few customized settings (if you set them), all the ones in gsettings/dconf, but it works.

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