On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 17:10:08 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > 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 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
The method you describe on that page is fine as far as it goes but someone without root access will not benefit from it. Many things in X can be configured from a user account; why not use a .xsession or ,xsessionrc file with xset commands in it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
