Navigation section

keyboard event

About this tag
The keyboard event tag covers discussions about how keyboard input interacts with Windows power management and display sleep behavior. In the context of Windows applications, keyboard events can wake a display from powersave timeout, but applications may not receive expected WM_POWERBROADCAST messages when the display turns off or wakes up. This tag is relevant for developers troubleshooting issues where a frontend application fails to respond to power state changes triggered by keyboard activity, particularly when screen saver and powersave timeouts are configured differently.
  1. liz08

    Windows 10 Screen Saver getting killed when display is turned off due to powersave timeout.

    I have a frontend application always running and receiving windows messages. When screen saver timeout is less than powersave timeout, my screen saver is getting killed and my frontend application is not receiving WM_POWERBROADCAST message when the displaying is going for sleep. Also due to...
    • liz08
    • Thread
    • display sleep frontend keyboard event mouse movement power saving screensaver timeout user activity windows message wm_powerbroadcast
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
Back
Top