Toggling off Awake does not stop Awake

[nextstate]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.51.1

Running as admin

• Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Awake

Steps to reproduce

1. I toggle Awake on to keep my system awake so that my screens do not shutoff after a few minutes of inactivity.
2. Several hours later, I toggle Awake off and I lock my computer with Win-L.

✔️ Expected Behavior

I expected that after toggling Awake off, the screens would shutoff after a few minutes, after I lock the computer with Win-L

❌ Actual Behavior

The screens remain on constantly while I have the computer locked.

The only way to get out of this mode is to exit PowerToys. Then I can re-launch PowerToys with Awake toggled off and the screens will then shutoff as expected when I lock the computer with Win-L.

Other Software

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[Jay-o-Way]

cc @dend

[htcfreek]

There is a known bug that awake isn't closed/killed correctly.

[nextstate]

Has this been fixed?

I updated to PowerToys 0.53.1 prior to 1/7/2022. This did not fix the issue.

I had to reboot my machine due to Windows updates on 1/8/2022.

Before the reboot, I had Awake toggled off in PowerToys.
After the reboot, Awake was toggled ON in PowerToys.
I opened Task Manager and found the PowerToys.Awake process in the Details tab.
I then toggled Awake off in PowerToys. I observed that the PowerToys.Awake process went away.
I locked my screen and after a few minutes, my screens shutoff.

So, this seems to be working for me at the moment. Was that expected?

[dend]

@nextstate - following-up on this issue, I can't reproduce the behavior, and it seems like Awake acts correctly. How were you toggling Awake - through Settings or the tray? Also, what is the OS version you're running?

[ghost]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has been marked as requiring author feedback but has not had any activity for 5 days. It will be closed if no further activity occurs within 5 days of this comment.

[nextstate]

@dend As I mentioned in a previous comment, it started working for me. I mentioned that it started working after a Windows update. In my comment I was asking if this was fixed. Maybe something in the Windows updated fixed it?

[zotabee]

Still an issue on Win 11 x64 clean, not domain-joined.

Power mode is and always was : Balanced

I'm wondering if there isn't a global issues with the toggle buttons inside Powertoys.

For example, toggling "Keep screen on" in the PowerToys Settings / Awake UX doesn't seem to trigger the "tick" on the task bar. Same thing with the task bar buttons, doesn't update what's in the main UX even when changing panel (going onto another page and going back to "Awake", it doesn't update the toggles).

And I confirm that even with Awake "off" (and the awake process being killed properly in the task manager), it didn't solve the issue. It seems triggering multiple time the toggles ("Keep using the selected power plan" and "Keep screen on" to "Off") finally updated the settings properly somewhere on the backend.

[dend]

@zotabee can you please confirm if the issue is still there with the latest release of Awake?

[zotabee]

@dend It seems the UI is correctly triggering the settings and it updates the taskbar awake UI ticks.

But the reverse, changing settings from the taskbar doesn't seem to impact UI toggles... Like if it did nothing at all...

Any news in the changelog that would suggest it has been fixed in the meantime?

[dend]

That is currently by design, but I would say that it's something that needs to change. Let me see if I can push this through in #24183.

[dend]

Consolidating the conversation on this in #12126.