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[[Category:misc-faq]]
The screensaver on LWP may be configured to suspend or hibernate after a certain period of inactivity of mouse and keyboard. Sometimes this feature may crash or freeze the computer. This most often happens on computers with an more powerful videocard (NVidia) an/or in combination of certain software like Matlab.

Disabling these powermanagement features may also desirable when you want to leave your computer calculating for sometime without using keyboard and mouse.

==Switching off powermanagement==

These step assume the "xfce4" desktop is being use (default on LWP).

# From the main menu, go to '''Settings'''.
# Then, from the sub-memu, select '''Screensaver'''.
# In the Screensaver preferences window which appears, click the '''Advanced''' tab.
# Make sure the checkbox '''Power management''' is '''un'''-checked.