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Drifty Flintlock

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Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 20

Screen goes blank after about 10 minutes.

Pretty much what the topic says, after 10 minutes or so of inactivity, the screen goes blank and I have to move the mouse or hit a key to turn it back on. Not a big deal for normal work, but kind of annoying when I'm trying to watch movies, etc. I've checked the power saving features in KDE, they're all turned off, but I have no idea if there might be other power saving features I don't know about. Interestingly, the screen stays on if I use Ctrl-Alt-L to lock it. I'm sure this is just a setting somewhere, but I'm not sure where, and it's nothing I would have set intentionally.

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Screen goes blank after about 10 minutes.

"Screen saver" is disabled? And what about "display" under perhaphials in kde control center? maybe you should "enable" it, but set the controls to disabled?
If that doesn't work, it's because xorg has screen saver on by default. (xset -s off), or if your monitor really does standby (xset dpms 0 0 0).
"xset --help" if you want to know more.

About dpms. (Display Power Management Signaling)
You could try to set this in xorg.conf, serverlayout section;

    Option "StandbyTime"         "0"    # Turn off screen, minutes (DPMS)
    Option "SuspendTime"        "0"    # Full hibernation, minutes (DPMS)
    Option "OffTime"        "0"    # Turn off DPMS monitor, minutes (DPMS)

This is essentially what "display" does in kde control center though...

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dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: Screen goes blank after about 10 minutes.

There is also Option "BlankTime" which defaults to 10 when it is not set.