Re: DPMS broken in xfree 4.x/gnome 1.4?

[Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@home.com>]

Well, it took about 2 seconds to find the answer at the gnome website. I'm
just trying it now. I don't seem to have the xscreensaver daemon running
by default; that's probably key...

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53860

  This is not a bug, as it turns out, just a feature with
  difficult-to-find documentation :)

  Xscreensaver 3.32 comes with gnome 1.4 from Ximian. In the
  xscreensaver changelog for (I think) version 1.30, it explicitly
  states that xscreensaver takes over all DPMS control.

  I happened upon the easy way to fix my DPMS control by executing the
  Xscreensaver graphical control program:
  xscreensaver-command -prefs

...RickM...