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I have a wireless mouse, but Ubuntu shows, that it has 5% battery, and as a result is dimming after 30 sec of inactive. How can I turn it off?

SOLUTION:

Download some software to control behaviour of your device (in my case it was SetPoint) and then change the right things in settings there(in my case I had to disable notifications). If you cannot run the software on your OS as it was in my case. You can use Virtual Machine.

Thanks to @PRATAP for help.

Newb1996
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Go to system Settings, Power, in the Power Saving area you will find "Dim Screen When Inactive" Turn it off.enter image description here

PRATAP
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  • I have turned it off. It doesn't work. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 12:40
  • Dell Inspiron 7559. There is no Bios settings controlling this. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 13:40
  • My laptop doesn't have touch screen. I'm not able to get into BIOS in Ubuntu. I can press F2, F12, fn+F2, esc, fn+esc, F1, fn+F1, but no one works. Is it possible like in windows to enter Bios through OS? – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:09
  • After 30sec of inactivity when I press any key it resuming. The brightness screen is just lower. For instance normally I have 80% brightness and when it dim I have 20%. - that's what I mean saying that my screen is dimming. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:12
  • I don't see the Dell logo. I have fast boot enabled in BIOS., but I press the keys immediately after turn computer on. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:16
  • After install Ubuntu I wanted to get into BIOS. I've checked all possible combinations. Having Ubuntu with fast boot enabled I'm not able to get into BIOS. I need a windows OS to get into BIOS. (but currently I have only Ubuntu) – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:23
  • I know. But Ubuntu had to do something with my BIOS, beacuse even when I unplug hardware disk, I'm not able to get into BIOS. The manual says only how can I can access BIOS via windows. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:29
  • I've checked all possible combinations. Trust me it's not problem with wrong key pressed. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:38
  • Reset CMOS also didn't help me. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:41
  • I can use bootable usb, beacuse in my boot section I have set 1. USB 2. Hard drive. But I'm not sure how do you want to get into BIOS via booting menu. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:50
  • I have restarted OS whole time I had pressed shift key until the OS brought me to login panel. Any recovery mode or something else didn't popup. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 15:56
  • @Newb1996 It's a BIOS problem now which is off-topic here but on topic there +1 to PRATAP for the good answer! :-) – Fabby May 31 '18 at 16:29
  • Hi, in my grub menu I have just Ubuntu, mem-test and advanced options. In the advanced options I have recovery mode. But I don't know how can I get to BIOS through this. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 16:44
  • I did it before. Like 2-3 days ago. I could see the grub menu whole time, but there is no option like BIOS. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 16:49
  • Ubuntu 18.04 alone. https://www63.zippyshare.com/v/Mgq3Uqb4/file.html . I don't have there an option system settings. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 17:10
  • But I remember, that in BIOS I hadn't an option like power managment, brightness control, or something like that. And my main purpose is to prevent dimming. So maybe, there is a way to do it? If I unplug my mouse then everything backs to normal, but when I have plugged in my wifi mouse, the screen dim after 30s. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 17:38
  • It's a wireless mouse. - I need to plug special usb and then the mouse using wifi connect to this. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 17:42
  • Try discharge your battery to 5%. Ubuntu shows, that my mouse has 5% battery, but in fact I'm using my mouse since 4 days. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 17:48
  • Yes. Settings -> Power -> Devices – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 17:49
  • https://www102.zippyshare.com/v/52GjDTz7/file.html As you wish :P Maybe just some devices are supported for this option. – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 17:53
  • @PRATAP Thanks, it helped me. I downloaded this program on Virtual Machine and changed some options there. Now everything is fine! Thank you very much :D – Newb1996 May 31 '18 at 19:18