07-18-2008, 10:51 AM
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 Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out
In article , wrote:
> 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?
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> | Is KDE or GNOME responsible for the "blanking"?
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> I doubt it. It happens without them as a desktop environment. I'm using fvwm.
> But I could try KDE for a while.
After it happens, check /var/log/{syslog,messages,Xorg.0.log} to see what
happened.
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