Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?
On Thursday 16 July 2015 19:10:08 D. R. Evans wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM:
> > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote:
> >> For xfce, you might try this:
> >>
> >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart
> >> Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver.
> >
> > Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchecking all the
> > blankers and setting the times north of 10 hours, which if that
> > works, is tolerable for the application.
>
> If the blanking is caused by a screensaver application under the
> control of your desktop environment, that should work (I guess).
>
> But if it's caused by either DPMS being invoked, or X blanking the
> monitor, then you'll need to explicitly change the behaviour by
> editing an xorg.conf file if you really want to eliminate the
> blanking.
>
> I happened to write up exactly how I did this earlier today:
>
> http://drevans.blog.enginehousebooks.com/2015/07/preventing-dpms-opera
>tion-in-x-in.html
>
> Doc
Thanks, I have at leasr 3 machines I need to do that to.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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