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#1 2012-04-03 02:28:23
- danielcory92
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Screen keeps shutting off [SOLVED]
Hello all, I know there have been posts about this before but they are from 2007 and their file systems/solutions arn't the same 
Basically I shut off ALL power saving options on my laptop, but lo and behold when I leave my monitor alone for about five minutes the screen shuts off, its very iratating for me...Would some one please be willing to help me? Thank you in advanced
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#3 2012-04-04 03:03:28
- danielcory92
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Re: Screen keeps shutting off [SOLVED]
Do I just enter that in straight to the terminal? I saw something that looked like that on a wiki, but i thought I had to enter that into some text file and I was confused about that. I'll try it.
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#4 2012-04-04 03:09:20
- wolfcore
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Re: Screen keeps shutting off [SOLVED]
Do I just enter that in straight to the terminal? I saw something that looked like that on a wiki, but i thought I had to enter that into some text file and I was confused about that. I'll try it.
Yes, you have to execute the commands in your terminal.
Optionally, you can run them from a script at startup.
Be sure to read the wiki.
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#5 2012-04-04 17:28:46
- danielcory92
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Re: Screen keeps shutting off [SOLVED]
oh so I have to run it every time I start up unless I do a startup script? Okay thank you!
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#6 2012-04-05 12:08:49
- Mr.Elendig
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Re: Screen keeps shutting off [SOLVED]
oh so I have to run it every time I start up unless I do a startup script? Okay thank you!
You can also turn dpms off for all users in xorg.conf(.d)
Evil #archlinux@libera.chat channel op and general support dude.
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#7 2012-04-06 01:17:29
- danielcory92
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Re: Screen keeps shutting off [SOLVED]
o.o I'm not exacly sure what DPMS is, do you think you can explain that to me? Either way I made a start up script and I accidently left my laptop on for several hours without touching it, and I noticed the screen was still on! Which means it worked! haha Thank You all!
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#8 2012-04-06 05:58:27
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Re: Screen keeps shutting off [SOLVED]
Good to hear this resolved your issue. Don't forget to mark your thread as [SOLVED].
PS: Info to disable DPMS via your Xorg config.
PPS: Some general DPMS info.
Burninate!
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