Re: prevent debian from sleeping

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Jack Dangler wrote:
> Hi, all - 
> Just noticed that my deb sessions are going to sleep. I setup
> my .xinitrc file to prevent it using xset, but no joy.
> 
> The .xinitrc contains the following - 
> xset s off	# don't activate screensaver
> xset -dpms	# disable DPMS (energy star) features
> xset s noblank	# don't blank the video device
> 
> exec /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager # start lxde

I start the x server with startx and have no desktop environment, and
have simply this in my window manager (fluxbox) startup file:

  xset s off
  xset -dpms