Hi to everyone.
I would like to control the timing of the automatic blanking of the monitor
(occurs within few minutes of inactivity). I have been unable to find where
or how to control it.
Can someone help me?
Thanks in advance.
Manuel Leon
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:29:37 -0500 Manuel Leon sistemas@sanjuan.co.cu wrote:
I would like to control the timing of the automatic blanking of the monitor> (occurs within few minutes of inactivity). I have been unable to find where> or how to control it.
man xset
On Dec 19, 2007 10:29 AM, Manuel Leon sistemas@sanjuan.co.cu wrote:
I would like to control the timing of the automatic blanking of the monitor
(occurs within few minutes of inactivity). I have been unable to find where
or how to control it.
Can someone help me?
setterm -powersave off -blank 0 xset s off
Please read the man pages so you know what these two commands are doing.
Jim Perrin wrote on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:03:04 -0500:
setterm -powersave off -blank 0 xset s off
I had a look at these options as I want to make the system shut off the monitor instead of just blanking the screen. But I can't make it happen, the command options as explained in the man page don't work.
Example: xset dpms off 300
should shut it off after 300 seconds, but xset complains about an "unknown option". It does that for other dpms options as well. So, I cannot set any dpms options.
xset dpms force off does seem to shut off the monitor, but only for a second.
xset q shows some defaults for suspend, standby, off. Off should happen after 2400 seconds. Just that this sure doesn't happen.
I have now disabled the screensaver with xset s off. Could this have prevented the monitor from shutting off? (if so, setting a blank screensaver as a default is pretty stupid in my opinion.)
Kai
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