On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:49:36PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 12 feb 11, 00:17:12, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > Any ideas on what I'm missing here? There must be some other > > setting I'm overlooking, only I haven't come across it in 14 > > years of using Debian! > > ,----[ /etc/X11/xorg.conf ] > | Section "Serverflags" > | Option "BlankTime" "0" > | Option "StandbyTime" "10" > | Option "SuspendTime" "20" > | Option "OffTime" "30" > | EndSection > `---- > > I think some (all?) can also be configured with xset(1). Thanks, I think that was the issue. There was a 600s timeout set reported by xset -q, which was cleared with "xset -dpms; xset s 0 0". It's rather odd that neither the GNOME power management settings, nor the screensaver settings allow one to set this (or set it for you). I'm sure this used to be the case. (I checked with xscreensaver, and this does allow these settings to be configured, and it does actually set them, since I can see with xset that they have changed.) Looks like a fairly stupid regression IMO, but like most of GNOME it was probably too complicated for "granny" so they removed it. I'll be off to Xfce 4.8 once it hits unstable. Thanks again, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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