Screen Blanking in X

[Aviss,Tyler]

KDE/gnome both have their own powersaving stuff too, I had to override  
them for stuff on my systems. Maybe there?

(sent from my phone, so please excuse the typos)

On 29-Jul-09, at 9:59 AM, William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org 
 > 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.
> -- 
>
> yours,
>
> William
>
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