Energy savings ignored with wheel priviliges

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Surt di Muspell

Hi guys, i have this obnoxious problem: no matter what, if I get wheel privileges throughout the gui, monitor want go off after xx minutes, the energy saving settings are ignored.
With sddm off, starting kde from .xinitrc, and so kde not knowing i'm wheel, no battery control is available (as well as external devices and shutdown/restart controls, of course), and energy saving works fine.
Battery is burnt, and when in "sddm mode" is shown as "-1% and discharging", and removing it makes kde not showing it, but still no monitor switching. Screen lock is deactivated.

Code: 
[cygnus-X1]# uname -a
FreeBSD cygnus-X1 13.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE VIRGO amd64
[cygnus-X1]# pkg query -e '%a = 0' %o
audio/audacity
graphics/gimp-app
audio/kid3
x11/konsole
ports-mgmt/pkg
ports-mgmt/pkg-provides
x11/plasma5-plasma
net/rsync
x11/sddm
security/sudo
x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics
x11/xorg
 
Surt di Muspell said:
With sddm off, starting kde from .xinitrc, and so kde not knowing i'm wheel, no battery control is available (as well as external devices and shutdown/restart controls, of course), and energy saving works fine.
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This has nothing to do with KDE "not knowing you're wheel". You are a member of that group or not, SDDM has nothing to do with this. If you start KDE from .xinitrc then you likely haven't started a console kit session, see ck-list-sessions(1).
 
SirDice said:
This has nothing to do with KDE "not knowing you're wheel". You are a member of that group or not, SDDM has nothing to do with this. If you start KDE from .xinitrc then you likely haven't started a console kit session, see ck-list-sessions(1).
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Thanx Sir, this is how i start kde without dm:
Code: 
[cygnus-X1]> cat .xinitrc
# workaround for bad defaults in synaptics driver since 12.2
synclient TapButton1=1

exec ck-launch-session startplasma-x11

[cygnus-X1]>

Like that, as said, no power, battery or umass controls, but monitor switches off after the default 10 mins.
If i start a session through sddm, instead, i get full control of the aforementioned, but the monitor does not switch off, ever.
Besides, I am member of wheel, video, & operator
 
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