On Saturday 20 June 2020 12:02:51 Brian wrote: > On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 11:26:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker kicks > > in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So how do I > > shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration? Building a > > device to rock the mouse back and forth at 1 minute intervals seems > > like a huge waste of time and metal cutting tools to make it. > > > > So, how can I kill the blanker for several hours or all day/night if > > need be? > > In my .xsession I have > > xset -dpms > xset s off <-I didn't have this, set from the command line, thanks > xset s noblank > > It works for me.
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