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RufusD

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Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 86

[SOLVED] xfce4: disable screen blanking

Hi there!
Is there an easy way to temporarily disable screen blanking? E.g., when watching a movie. I know that vlc can do so, but more often than not I find myself watching some live stream in the browser, so I need another solution. I don't need a fancy GUI - if only I knew of a CLI command, I could bind it to a .desktop file myself.

Or maybe there even is a panel plugin that can keep my screen running with a few mouse clicks?

Best wishes,
Rufus

Last edited by RufusD (2011-08-10 15:43:57)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4: disable screen blanking

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DPMS
Specifically https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DP … urning_off

xset -dpms;xset s off

Last edited by karol (2011-07-19 13:07:27)

RufusD

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Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4: disable screen blanking

That looks good, thank you!
I'll give it a try and report back

mips1

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Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 100

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4: disable screen blanking

Have a look at this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122841

RufusD

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Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] xfce4: disable screen blanking

OK, thanks everybody. It took me ages to realize that it's the screensaver that keeps resisting me. So instead of a simple

xset -dpms

, now I'm using an

xset s off -dpms

which works perfectly. (As I could have noticed by paying attention to karol's post).
Anyway, file closed.