Perhaps. I should take a look at the monitor configuration and see if there's a setting I can change. Something like "monitor power button puts monitor to sleep

Perhaps. I should take a look at the monitor configuration and see if there's a setting I can change. Something like "monitor power button puts monitor to sleep" rather than "monitor power button turns power off to monitor". I don't turn the power off at the source, i.e. unplug the monitors.