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itti

Member

Registered: 2007-06-01

Posts: 79

Enable DPMS on startup

Hi,

I'm running arch on a Samsung E3520 laptop with an Intel HD3000 graphics chip. After some recent update I noticed the battery indicator of the gnome settings daemon went missing. After some search on the forums I found that I'm affected by this issue. This means that the indicator doesn't appear right when DPMS is disabled. When I enable DPMS manually via xset and then restart the gnome settings daemon power plugin the indicator does appear.

xset +dmps

So my question is what keeps disabling DPMS on my display on boot? I checked various login scripts like .bashrc and .xinitrc but there is no mention of DPMS at all.

I tried to explicitly set DPMS at the Xorg configuration like the following snippet shows but to no avail.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-monitor.conf

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier "<default monitor>"
	DisplaySize 345 194
	Option "DPMS"
EndSection

David Batson

Member

Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Enable DPMS on startup

There may be other ways to do it, but I know it can be enabled in xorg.conf.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html