Re: DPMS

[davidson <davidson@freevolt.org>]

On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, davidson wrote:

> Step 1. Go to /etc/X11
>
> ~# cd /etc/X11
> /etc/X11#
>
> Step 2. If there is no xorg.conf.d directory there, then create
> one. Make it the current working directory:
>
> /etc/X11# mkdir -v xorg.conf.d
> mkdir: created directory 'xorg.conf.d'
> /etc/X11# cd xorg.conf.d
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d#
>
> Important: If you already had a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d directory before
> completing step 2, then make sure not to clobber the contents of any
> existing files when you do step 3; use 'ls' or something to make sure
> that /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf does not already exist.

To make clobberage of an existing file less likely, you could name it
something more unusual than 10-monitor.conf. Something like

 10-monitor-insomniac.conf

for example.

[*] I've removed OP from CC, since my previous cc bounced.

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