Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 17:10:08 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
> 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-operation-in-x-in.html
The method you describe on that page is fine as far as it goes but
someone without root access will not benefit from it. Many things
in X can be configured from a user account; why not use a .xsession
or ,xsessionrc file with xset commands in it?
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