KDE 4.6 beta2 power management

[Martin Airs]

On Thursday 09 December 2010 10:25:05 Lars Slettjord wrote:
> On Wednesday 8. December 2010 15.53.20 Martin Airs wrote:
> > Since updating to 4.5.85 my monitor goes off after 10 minutes of
> > inactivity, I've tried turning off the monitor power management in
> > powerdevil and it still goes of after 10 minutes, I even tried setting
> > the timeout to 1 minute but the monitor still goes off after 10
> > minutes.
> > 
> > It seems something else is turning off the monitor, and powerdevil is
> > having no effect.
> 
> I have seen something similar in KDE 4.4. I had to use xset to change
> parameters for dpms and s. Just run 'xset q' and see if screensaver timeout
> or DPMS Standby is set to 600. Personally i have this in one of my startup-
> scripts:
> 
>   xset dpms 3600 3600 3600
>   xset s 3600 3600
> 
> You might like other values though.

Hi Lars,

Thankyou for that, that has fixed it, I just used 'xset -dpms' and now my 
monitor doesn't go off at all

thanks again

Martin
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