Re: screen blanking

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:13:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> The best I get disabling dpms is 20 minutes with either:
> Option          "BlankTime"  "3600"
> in "ServerLayout"
> 
> or -s 3600 in the start options for the server.

Have you considered simply turning dpms off?  `xset -dpms` should
prevent it from ever blanking, then `xset +dpms` to turn it back on
if you want blanking to resume.

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