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neon612

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Registered: 2013-03-31

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[Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

When I let my Asus EEEPC (1005HAB) idle on battery (especially if I'm watching something with VLC), after ten minutes the screen turns off. I can move the mouse or press a key to bring it back, but that gets to be annoying when I'm engrossed in a movie. I'm assuming this has something to do with a screensaver or power management setting. Correct?

I'm running Mate 1.8.1. The power management is set to put the display to sleep after 1 hour. And running pacman -Q mate-screensaver returns package not found. I have looked through the dconf settings, but haven't been able to find the correct setting to change (if its even in there).

Last edited by neon612 (2014-07-30 01:30:16)

nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

Just default behaviour.  There's a do not disturb feature with youtube? is it, but you could possibly do something with xscreensaver and change the setting that way.

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karol

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

What's the output of 'xset -q'?

headkase

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

Run these two commands in a shell:

xset -dpms
xset s off

If your display does not shut off after ten minutes then it is default X behavior as the cause.  In that case put both those commands in a script and tell your desktop environment to run the script at startup if you like.

neon612

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Registered: 2013-03-31

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

xset -q:

Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  30
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x22    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 7200    Suspend: 7200    Off: 14400
  DPMS is Disabled

neon612

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Registered: 2013-03-31

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

Thanks for the push in the right direction. I still want the "blanking" screensaver to happen, but I just wanted it to display after an idle time of more than 10 minutes. So in my case I changed it to 30 minutes, for now, using:

xset s 1800

I put that command as one of the commands run at startup, so it should change the delay time at every boot.

Thanks again.

stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

VLC has an option to disable the screensaver. Did you check that? Although it hasn’t worked under Xfce for quite some time…

neon612

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Registered: 2013-03-31

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

VLC has an option to disable the screensaver. Did you check that? Although it hasn’t worked under Xfce for quite some time…

I checked that and made sure it was set to kill the screensaver. Still had the same problem.
The above fix has worked so far, though. So I'll be using it for the time being.

enzyme

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Registered: 2015-08-08

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

where is the file to change the xset option?

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved] Screen goes blank after ten minutes

Please don't necrobump old threads, enzyme. Especially when they're marked as solved.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

You should check the wiki if you want to know how to run xset commands when you log in.

Closing.

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