Re: Turn Off Screen Saver
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 20:31 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> 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 :-?
I don't know.
> How about the values for "Screen Saver"?
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 600 cycle: 600
>
> > 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 :-)
Just trying to figure out what is going on with this control and why
wouldn't I want to be able to change my power management setting from
time to time?
> > 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.
Some more information:
Each time I boot into my old user the output of xset -q reverts to :
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600
I need to go back into power management to and click "Make Default" to
make it change back to:
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
each time I reboot.
Though I don't need to do this with the new user.
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