Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 15:53:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
Guess what?
1. You don't need a .xsession file to try out the commands.
2. You can create a .xsession file of your very own to put on the
machines.
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