screen blanking openbox

ancleessen4 · 2010-04-06 16:46:44

I have openbox installed and I have installed xscreensaver to try to manage the screen blanking.
I have;

xscreensaver -no-splash &

in both ~/.xinitrc and ob-autostart.

This did work initially but now the screen blanking is back after +/-10 minutes:rolleyes:

Any pointers to fix this would be much appreciated.

Last edited by ancleessen4 (2010-04-06 16:55:09)

pyther · 2010-04-06 17:46:59

Do you want screen blanking or not? It is not very clear.

If you want to turn off you monitors after X minutes you can do this with xorg.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DPMS

ancleessen4 · 2010-04-06 18:02:33

Sorry to be clear-I do not want screen blanking.
I was trying to use xscreensaver to disable screen blanking.

pyther · 2010-04-06 18:12:08

Might want to set Option "DPMS" "false" in xorg config. I think this an xorg issue. Also remove all the line regarding to xscreensaver as you don't need it.

What desktop environment are you using?

bernarcher · 2010-04-06 18:12:49

I used xscreensaver for years but did disable it now. You just don't need xscreensaver to merely suppress screen blanking. I put these lines in my ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh:

# Suppress screensaver start attempts and autoblanking
# xscreensaver -no-splash &
xset -dpms &
xset s off &

Have a look at man xset for this.

Last edited by bernarcher (2010-04-06 18:14:01)

ancleessen4 · 2010-04-06 18:23:44

@pyther
I am using openbox as stand-alone window manager.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … ow_manager

Thanks for your tip.

@bernarcher
I will give this a try when I am back on my home machine-thanks.

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