XFCE power manager no longer turns off the monitor
Doug H.
fedoraproject.org at wombatz.com
Tue Dec 29 16:57:01 UTC 2015
On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 08:19 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> At some point recently, my monitor stopped getting turned off after
> the
> prescribed period of inactivity. I'm using the XFCE power manager,
> and its
> settings remain untouched.
>
> Manually executing "xset dpms force off" turns the monitor off
> normally.
> "xset q" shows that everything appears to be in order:
>
> DPMS (Energy Star):
> Standby: 300 Suspend: 360 Off: 420
> DPMS is Enabled
> Monitor is On
>
> So, what else can I check?
I doubt this is your issue, but just in case...
Does it only fail to do the "Off" part or is it not doing any of the
three?
I got tired of cats and random vibrations waking my monitor up, so I
added the below to my startup programs:
>cat xscreensaver-mouse-disble.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# This watches for transitions of `xscreen saver` and disables the
mouse when it turns on
# and enables the mouse when it wakes up. This stops the mouse from
waking the monitor.
#
my $blanked = 0;
open (IN, "xscreensaver-command -watch |");
while (<IN>) {
if (m/^(BLANK|LOCK)/) {
if (!$blanked) {
system "xinput --set-prop 8 'Device Enabled' '0'";
$blanked = 1;
}
} elsif (m/^UNBLANK/) {
system "xinput --set-prop 8 'Device Enabled' '1'";
$blanked = 0;
}
}
--
Doug H.
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