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orschiro

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[Gnome 3] Prevent screen to turn off [Solved]

Hi guys,

I finally updated from Gnome 2 to 3 and wonder how I can prevent my screen to turn off after a while. From Gnome 2 I was used to be able to set 'never' besides settings like '1 minute', '10 minutes'...

Is there any way to apply that to Gnome 3?

Regards

Last edited by orschiro (2011-08-26 22:38:56)

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Earnestly

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Re: [Gnome 3] Prevent screen to turn off [Solved]

Have you tried setting it in your xorg.conf "ServerLayout" section?

Option "BlankTime" "0"

Option "BlankTime" "time"
- sets the inactivity timeout for the blanking phase of the screensaver. time is in minutes. This is equivalent to the Xorg server's `-s' flag, and the value can be changed at run-time with xset(1x) . Default: 10 minutes.
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xorg.conf.5.html

xset -s off

http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.0/doc/xset.1.html

orschiro

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Re: [Gnome 3] Prevent screen to turn off [Solved]

Hi Kaustic,

Thanks, I'm aware of that options. However I'm really wondering that Gnome 3 doesn't support that out of the box anymore. Shouldn't it be all about user friendliness?

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nobus

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Re: [Gnome 3] Prevent screen to turn off [Solved]

Have you tried setting it in your xorg.conf "ServerLayout" section?

Option "BlankTime" "0"

Well, some systems [like mine] of some people [like me] don't have "xorg.conf cause don't need that file at all.
You should try another recipe:
From your terminal you can execute two simple commands:

xset s off # Disable X windows screen saver
xset -dpms # Disable display power management system

(From here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthrea … 528&page=2)
Really works. Just add this to your ~/.bash_profile.

Last edited by nobus (2011-08-26 19:32:42)

orschiro

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Re: [Gnome 3] Prevent screen to turn off [Solved]

Anyone who is looking for a more integrated solution can have a look at the extension Gnome Presentation Mode. It is provided in the AUR.

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justl

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Registered: 2011-08-26

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Re: [Gnome 3] Prevent screen to turn off [Solved]

So I guess this can be marked as solved...?

JMK

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Registered: 2011-09-20

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Re: [Gnome 3] Prevent screen to turn off [Solved]

EDIT: Sorry, didn't see [Solved]. Deleted.

Last edited by JMK (2011-09-26 04:30:55)