On 18 Jul 2008 06:01:55 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2008 13:33:29 GMT Niklaus Kuehnis
> wrote:
>| 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
>
> And it still has no effect. Any other ideas to try?

Is KDE or GNOME responsible for the "blanking"?