Screen goes black but set not to in preferences

[Florian Ludwig]

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 10:53 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:02:17 +0200
> Florian Ludwig wrote:
> 
> > I am really happy for any pointers anyone can provide how to solve this.
> 
> As near as I can tell, you need to use all of belt, suspenders, duct tape,
> and bailing wire to really turn off screen blanking.

Ouh, ... writing a little script that moves the mouse a pixel every 9
minutes sounds easier to me now. [0] But ...

> [...]
> 4th write a bash script that runs these commands:
> 
> xset s off
> xset dpms 0 0 0
> xset -dpms
> 
> and add it to your startup scripts (make sure you
> chmod it to be executable).

That did the trick! Thank you very much.

Florian

[0] http://xkcd.com/196/

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