On 2012-06-12, Paul Nulandorn <paul.nulandorn@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Each time I boot into my old user the output of xset -q reverts to : > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600 Well if it isn't a system-wide setting, have you looked in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.Xdefaults? The dpms timeouts can also be set from xorg.conf; but that would effect the new user also, wouldn't it?