Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>]

On Thursday 16 July 2015 14:35:04 Brian wrote:
> On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > My atom boxes are using xfce I think.  And I have studied up on
> > xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort
> > to kill the screen blanker once and for all.  But I can't even do it
> > for 10 minutes in a row.
> >
> > So obviously the solution is not an xset command in the startup.
> >
> > Does anyone have a better, it even works, suggestion?
>
> I have
>
>   xset -dpms
>   xset s off
>   xset s no blank
>
> in my .xsession. That's using spectrwm as the window manager. Of
> course .xsession has to be read when X starts. The screen never blanks
> with these lines.

None of the machines I need to do that to have an ~/.xsession file.  
~/.xsession-error's yes.


Thanks Brian.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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