Screen Blanking in X

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:01:13PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:59:48PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> I am trying to turn off the powersaving features of X, specifically
>> screen blanking, display powerdown etc.
>> 
>> I do this because I turn off my monitor when I am not in front of it,
>> but when I turn it back on, I want it to come right back.  Also, when I
>> am watching something I don't want the screen to blank while I'm in the
>> middle.
>> 
>> I started here:
>> 
>> http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html
>> 
>> and updated my xorg.conf with this:
>> 
>>   Option      "BlankTime" "0"
>>   Option      "Standby" "0"
>>   Option      "Suspend" "0"
>>   Option      "OffTime" "0"
>> 
>> Unfortunately, this is not doing the trick - it is still in a
>> screen-blanked state when I return to it later.  (Yes, I restarted X,
>> but good idea.)
>> 
>> Does anyone know where else this might be set?  (Debian testing is the
>> distro.)  Thanks.
>
>Option "DPMS"?

Oh, there it is, in a different Section.  I'll comment that out and
test.  I shall report back.

>gnome-power-manager?  (That one took me a while to find in the past)
>
>xscrensaver?

Not using either at the moment, but good thoughts.
-- 

yours,

William

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