How do I prevent the screen for turning off on my desktop?

[Thomas Moschny]

2008/12/21 Orcan Ogetbil <orcanbahri at yahoo.com>:
> Here are my settings:

> System Settings -> General -> Display -> Power Control -> "Enable display power management" is unchecked.

What does "xset q" tell about DPMS? I've seen KDE fail to properly set
that. It might help enabling and disabling DPMS again, check with
xset.

- Thomas