Re: How to avoid screen blanking?
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:39:43PM +0100, Felix Koop wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your answers. Please keep me on cc as I am currently not
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>>
>> I tried "xset dpms force off" but that would blank the screen directly.
>> "xset -dpms" will switch dpms off (at least according to "xset q", but
>> will not stop the blanking. Same with xset s off or xset s 0. Both
>> settings do not help. I also commented out the "Option DPMS" in
>> xorg.conf file, but somehow this seems to come back in as "xset q" after
>> logging in will show DPMS as enabled.
>>
>> Yes, I am using gnome and my window manager is gdm3. I tried searching
>> power settings under org.gnome in dconf-editor, but did not find any.
>> Could you be more specific where they should be? Or do I need to install
>> any package to have those settings available?
>
> Try running gnome-screensaver-preferences
In GNOME 2.
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