Re: Turn Off Screen Saver
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 13:49 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:47:25 +1000, Paul Nulandorn wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 20:31 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
> >> How about the values for "Screen Saver"?
> >
> > Screen Saver:
> > prefer blanking: yes
> > allow exposures: yes
> > timeout: 600
> > cycle: 600
>
> This setting can be also making noise here.
> >> 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?
>
> If you are using gnome-power-manager daemon it is preferred/recommended
> that you use the GNOME tools to manage the power saving values. Mixing
> xset setting with a currently running daemon can cause unexpected results.
> > 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.
>
> Yes, I think this is documented at the "man xset":
> ***
> These settings will be reset to default values when you log out.
>
> Note that not all X implementations are guaranteed to honor all of these
> options.
> ***
>
> That is, you'll have to provide the commands you want to change on every
> login so they stick.
What command should I use to do this and where should I put it?
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