On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:10:08PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM:
> > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote:
> >> For xfce, you might try this:
> >>
> >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart
> >> Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver.
> >
> > Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchecking all the
> > blankers and setting the times north of 10 hours, which if that works,
> > is tolerable for the application.
>
> If the blanking is caused by a screensaver application under the control of
> your desktop environment, that should work (I guess).
>
> But if it's caused by either DPMS being invoked, or X blanking the monitor,
> then you'll need to explicitly change the behaviour by editing an xorg.conf
> file if you really want to eliminate the blanking.
I wonder. I've no desktop environment and easily control blanking simply
with these two lines in my window manager, ~/.fluxbox/startup:
xset s off
xset -dpms
>
> I happened to write up exactly how I did this earlier today:
>
> http://drevans.blog.enginehousebooks.com/2015/07/preventing-dpms-operation-in-x-in.html
>
> Doc
>
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