On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:00:50AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > So, I am using MATE from EPEL as my desktop on one of my laptops. > > The screen saver was working, however the monitors (if connected via a > docking station) were not going to sleep even if selected via the GUI > mate power manager. > > I then discovered that dpms has to be initialized via the command line > before it becomes available, regardless of the GUI mate power manager > setting. > > This documentation for Fedora has the detailed info: > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/pdf/Power_Management_Guide/Fedora-19-Power_Management_Guide-en-US.pdf > > (see page 37 in the document index ... or page 45 of 52 in the pdf reader) > > But basically, I needed to do this to turn on DPMS to happen at the 10 > minute point: > > xset +dpms; xset dpms 0 0 600 > > I figured I can't be the only one who had this problem .. so I thought I > would post it here. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > Johnny: Kind of you to post this. Odd thing is, I don't recall ever having had to do that on C7/MATE. I'm running MATE on my Acer netbook (C7), and a couple of VMs that I don't use much, but use for hacking around to try things before breaking my netbook. I did install from a Gnome cd/dvd (forget which) but first thing I did was install EPEL and MATE. wonder if Gnome would have pre-done that op for me? Fred > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------