Re: Turn Off Screen Saver
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:31:12 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 10:01 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote:
>> On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 11:40 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> > The thing is that as you are using stable, the only updates you
>> > receive are coming from the security repo and this usually does not
>> > make any changes in the packages that can lead to your problem.
>> >
>> > Test with a new user to check if the screen is also blanking for him
>> > and if so, review your monitor energy saving settings; some brands
>> > and eco displays allows to set the power management directly from the
>> > buttons and we tend to forgot about it :-)
>> >
>> >
>> OK, so I created a new user and checked the output of xset -q and got
>> this:
>>
>> DPMS (Energy Star):
>> Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
>> DPMS is Enabled
>>
>> as opposed to this:
>>
>> DPMS (Energy Star):
>> Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600
>> DPMS is Enabled
>>
>> So the problem is to do with the configuration of my user.
Mmm, that's curious. I wonder what could have altered those settings for
your usual user's profile :-?
How about the values for "Screen Saver"?
> Update:
>
> I have managed to get the output of xset -q to properly reflect the
> power-management popup configurations by playing around with the various
> settings and clicking the make default button. Some the screen does not
> go into power save now. The odd thing is that I can't make them go back
> to the way they were.
>
> Confused.
You want to enable the blanking again? Now the confused it's me :-)
> Can someone verify whether or not xset -q is supposed to reflect the
> power management popup?
This is what I get:
sm01@stt008:~$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002
auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffdfffdfe5ef
ffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 3/2 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
/home/sm01/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,/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,/home/sm01/.gnome2/share/fonts
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
File paths:
Config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Modules path: /usr/lib/xorg/modules
Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
But that does not seem to match with my current settings: I have set the
screensaver to comes up after 15 minutes and the screen has to be powered
down after 30 minutes.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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