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chrisd

Member

Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 21

Screen goes in standby mode

Dear All,

I don't want my screen to go into standby mode automatically after some time.
This is because I also use my computer to play music and when the monitor
goes in standby it will also stop playing the music.

I know about the xset -dpms and xset s off commands. I added these to my
.bashrc so that when I just open a terminal this will make sure that the screen
stops blanking. This used to work. However, recently, I think since my last
pacman -Syu update this stopped working and now the screen blanks again,
I think after some 8 or 10 minutes. Among other things this update increased
the xorg version from 1.20.6-3 to 1.20.7-1. Now for good measure I also
superfluously type the xset -dpms and xset s off commands manually but to
no avail. I also use xfce and the nvidea driver.

Anyone any ideas?
Chris

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,366

Re: Screen goes in standby mode

xfce should have it's own power management settings tool where you should be able to configure these things. How do you start xfce?

regid

Member

Registered: 2016-06-06

Posts: 208

Re: Screen goes in standby mode

I would try not to set neither dpms nor blanking (s) manually. And look at the output of

xset q

to see if dpms is not set automatically. You might also want to do that with a terminal running on X alone, without any DE environment, just to better isolate components.

chrisd

Member

Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 21

Re: Screen goes in standby mode

Many thanks for your suggestions.

I tried what V1del suggested. It seems I need both the xset commands and configure in
xfce config that I do not want power management. It now seems to work, mostly. I got
the impression that at one time it spontaneously changed back the xset off setting. I am
going to keep watching this and if I notice something interesting, I will report back.