phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
> I want to have X Windows stop blanking out the screen after some idle time.
> I've tried things like "xset s 0 0" and "xset s noblank", but this seems to
> have no effect towards my goal. I want to have the original screen just
> stay on there indefinitely. I don't want it to switch to a screensaver,
> either.

man xset
xset -dpms
xset s off

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Niklaus