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Hello,
I tried to configure dpms from wiki, and I created a 10-monitor.conf file as suggested:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "ServerLayout0"
Option "StandbyTime" "10"
Option "SuspendTime" "30"
Option "OffTime" "45"
EndSectionbut screen doesn't go blank, off or anything. I don't use a DM, and I have budgie desktop as DE, which has an energy setting, also doesn't work though.
If I use xset commands:
xset dpms force suspend
xset dpms force standby
xset dpms force offthe screen behaves as expected.
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What output does xset -q give?
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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: 33
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 10
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
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Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0Looks like your settings in 10-monitor.conf aren't being respected. Have you got something running like XScreenSaver or Xfce Power Manager that overrides DPMS settings?
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I've installed xscreensaver, which had the same problem and I removed it. I also have xfce, so I suppose I have the xfce power manager too.
EDIT:
I have xfce-power-manager and I just run it's settings. I found that it was configure to control power manager, but it doesn't running. I disabled and now I will reboot to see if something changes.
Last edited by dancer69 (2015-07-28 17:02:30)
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You almost certainly have the power manager. If pgrep -f xfce4-power-manager returns something then it's running. You could disable the power manager on startup:
Applications -> Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application Autostart (then untick Power Manager)
Alternatively, just control your DPMS settings through the Power Manager:
Applications -> Settings -> Power Manager -> Display (look for the setting under the DPMS heading)
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Yes it outputs 588. I killed this proccess but again screen doesn't go off. Also I don't run xfce-session and I was set to handle display power management, but it didn't. I disabled it and reboot but still didn't. Now after I enable it again works. This will work and for virtual consoles? Because I have the same problem there too.
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As a quick aside, you don't need to do all these reboots. Logouts almost always suffice for testing config changes.
You say you're not running xfce4-session so what are you running? And what within that session causes xfce4-power-manager to be run? You need to figure that if you want to disable Xfce Power Manager as the method I described above won't work if you're not running xfce4-session.
Basically, once you have ensured xfpm isn't running on login, just check to see if the values reported by xset -q line up with what's in your 10-monitor.conf. If they do, then your DPMS settings should be working.
Last edited by Chazza (2015-07-28 17:37:55)
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I'm running Budgie-Session, I mentioned above. Now seems that power manager works fine for X session, and also has a tray icon which appears in Budgie panel. So I don't mind to have it. The problem now is how to make it work and outside X.
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I'm running Budgie-Session, I mentioned above.
Right, sorry I missed that.
Regarding DPMS in the console, as per this section of the DPMS article, it would seem your best bet is to use setterm commands. Pop them in your ~/.bash_profile if you want them run on each console login.
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I tried setterm commands, but they don't seem to work. All commands I tried (blank, powersave=on, powersave=off, powerdown 0), only clear the screen(I can tell because I have a colored background).
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Unfortunately the problem appears again, and I cannot find any way to activate screen off. I have uninstalled xfce power manager, deactivated gnome power manager, made sure that they doesn't running by the pgrep command mentioned above, but still doesn't work. I tried to manually set a timeout via xset and works without problems, but without it DPMS doesn't work. I also tried to create a .desktop file with this command and put it in autostart folder, but it doesn't work either. Tried also to create a systemd service which fails with error: unable to open display "0 0".
Here is the service:
[Unit]
Description=DPMS control
[Service]
Type=oneshot
KillMode=none
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xset -display ":0.0" dpms 60 660 1200
[Install]
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In your service file above, try adding
After=graphical.targetafter the Description line.
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Failed again. I get different messages from systemctl status than before, but again at the end is the error: unable to open display...
failure messages:
dpmsctl.service - DPMS control
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/dpmsctl.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Παρ 2015-07-31 14:55:10 EEST; 15s ago
Process: 5223 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xset -display :0.0 dpms 60 660 1200 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 5223 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
systemd[1]: Starting DPMS control...
xset[5223]: No protocol specified
xset[5223]: /usr/bin/xset: unable to open display ":0.0"dpmsctl.service: Main process exited, code=exit...URE
xset[5223]: /usr/bin/xset: unable to open display ":0.0"Failed to start DPMS control.
systemd[1]: dpmsctl.service: Unit entered failed state
systemd[1]: dpmsctl.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
xset[5223]: /usr/bin/xset: unable to open display ":0.0"Offline
Ok, different approach. How about putting your xset command in your ~/.xinitrc.
Last edited by Chazza (2015-07-31 13:28:17)
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I tried already together with the autostart method but it didn't work. But I just created a script with a sleep before and put this in .desktop file instead. This way works, so I believe that .xinitrc method will work too.
Last edited by dancer69 (2015-07-31 13:43:00)
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