[GTALUG] Keep X from going to sleep

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:18:52AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
> There are two primary controls which can blank the screen. One is the
> screen saver widget the other is power management. Obviously the screen
> saver can display an image but it can also just blank the screen. Power
> management can spin down drives etc. but it also can blank the screen. If
> you access both of these and set each one to never, your screen should stay
> lit.
> 
> One caveat, for some reason updates of either of these resets the time to
> blank the screen to 10 min or so. Or at least it has done this in the past.
> With everyone using at least LCD displays now I don't know why the screen
> savers ship enabled by default. They were originally intended to stop CRT
> burn in. That is if you left a static image on your screen for a
> significant amount of time you would actually burn the image onto your
> display. I don't believe burn in is a problem these days. My screen never
> shut off when my computer is running, sometimes weeks of uptime before I
> reboot for one reason or another. Haven't toasted my LCD monitor, yet!
> Hope this helps.

Well at least with DPMS, making the screen go into power saving mode
does save power, so having it do that by default does sound like a
reasonable thing.

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Len Sorensen