[GTALUG] Keep X from going to sleep

[Russell Reiter]

I agree saving power is a reasonable thing. That's one reason I don't
recommend disabling DPMS completely. Spinning down the drives saves power
and also servs to extend the lifespan of the drive, if only marginally.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> 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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