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B-Con

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Registered: 2007-12-17

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Screen blanks automatically [solved]

On both my desktop and laptop my monitor will go blank after some period of inactivity, which is irritating. I don't have xscreensaver installed, and I've turned off -- to my knowledge -- the default Xorg screen blanking:

$ xset s 0
$ xset s off

But after 20 minutes of activity the monitor always turns off.

What might be causing this? Is it Xorg?

Last edited by B-Con (2009-05-11 22:29:43)

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GGLucas

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Registered: 2008-03-13

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Re: Screen blanks automatically [solved]

Yeah, Xorg does that. You can put a few options into ServerFlags to change the behaviour, mine looks like this:

Section "ServerFlags"
    # Enable C-A-Backspace
    Option         "DontZap" "False"

    # Don't use screensaver, turn
    # screens off after 15 minutes
    Option         "BlankTime" "0"
    Option         "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option         "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option         "OffTime" "15"
EndSection

This turns the screens off instead of just blanking them, but you can set the "15" to "0" and it will never blank them or turn them off.

B-Con

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-12-17

Posts: 554

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Re: Screen blanks automatically [solved]

Nice, thanks for that.

[edit]
Just got a chance to test it, that fixed it.

Last edited by B-Con (2009-05-11 22:29:32)

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