On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 18:30:14 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, 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? > > > > What is your Desktop Environment? > > TDE r14.0.8, on stretch.
So did you tell TDE in the approved manner to run those commands? or just put them in a file called .xsession. Does TDE even read .xsession? Is TDE part of Debian, or does it have a list of its own? Cheers, David.
