Re: dpms control?
On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote:
> > >> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >>> Greetings all;
> > >>> I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker
> > >>> kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So how
> > >>> do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration?
> >
> > Since we seem to be troubleshooting, what is the output of
> >
> > $ xset q
> gene@coyote:/media$ xset q
> Keyboard Control:
> auto repeat: on key click percent: 10 LED mask: 00000000
> XKB indicators:
> 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
> 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
> 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
> 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
> 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
> auto repeat delay: 594 repeat rate: 14
> auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
> fadfffefffedffff
> 9fffffffffffffff
> fff7ffffffffffff
> bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
> Pointer Control:
> acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 4
> Screen Saver:
> prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes
> timeout: 0 cycle: 0
> Colors:
> default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
> Font Path:
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
> DPMS (Energy Star):
> Standby: 450 Suspend: 600 Off: 900
> DPMS is Disabled
>
> But if I repeat that query half san hour later, something has re-enabled
> dpms. Murphy?
If the system insists on setting dpms, can you change those three
numbers with dpms 1 2 3 only using some *very* large numbers.
(DE stuff is beyond me.)
Cheers,
David.
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