On 18 Jul 2008 10:38:34 GMT Bob Tennent
wrote:
| 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"?
I doubt it. It happens without them as a desktop environment. I'm using fvwm.
But I could try KDE for a while.
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