can't disable screenblank
Dave Mitchell
davem at iabyn.com
Thu Jun 8 10:45:27 UTC 2006
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:45:20PM -0400, dj+fedora at delorie.com wrote:
> Try opening a terminal and running "xset q" and looking for the DPMI
> settings. Those can be on even if the screen saver is off.
Aha!
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
> I have a "slideshow" user on my laptop that does this in .xsession to
> keep the display running (i.e. for days, during the fair):
>
> xset -dpms
> xset s off
That seems to have done the trick, thanks.
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