Re: auto blanking screen is not working
On Sun 20 Apr 2014 at 14:41:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 17:14 +0530, David Pom wrote:
> > I'm using siduction (based on debian sid), with gnome3 desktop, in hp
> > pavillion laptop.
> > Auto blanking screen is not working. Please suggest me what to do.
>
> I disable screen blanking by /etc/X11/xorg.conf .
A very co-operative administrator is needed to do this.
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "BlankTime" "0"
> Option "StandbyTime" "0"
> Option "SuspendTime" "0"
> Option "OffTime" "0"
> EndSection
>
> To enable it, edit the BlankTime value
> http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xorg.conf.5.html .
Screen blanking is completely under user control in Debian. First read
xset(1). Then create the file ~/.xsessionrc and put the wanted commands
in it. 'xset s dpms 10' might be worth a go.
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