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Re: dpms control?



On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:03:06 David Wright wrote:

> On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 18:30:14 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Greetings all;
> > > > I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker
> > > > kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect.  So
> > > > how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration?
> > > > Building a device to rock the mouse back and forth at 1 minute
> > > > intervals seems like a huge waste of time and metal cutting
> > > > tools to make it.
> > > >
> > > > So, how can I kill the blanker for several hours or all
> > > > day/night if need be?
> > >
> > > What is your Desktop Environment?
> >
> > TDE r14.0.8, on stretch.
>
> So did you tell TDE in the approved manner to run those commands?
> or just put them in a file called .xsession. Does TDE even read
> .xsession? Is TDE part of Debian, or does it have a list of its own?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
That is essentially what I am bugging their list about.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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