On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, 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?
>
> Since we seem to be troubleshooting, what is the output of
>
> $ xset q
gene@coyote:/media$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 10 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 594 repeat rate: 14
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 450 Suspend: 600 Off: 900
DPMS is Disabled
But if I repeat that query half san hour later, something has re-enabled
dpms. Murphy?
> Might shed some light. To somebody.
>
> Also, figuring out what "screen blanker" we are really dealing with
> might help. Any hits for this?
>
> $ man -k kpowersave
>
> And do you have one of these?
>
> ~/.trinity/share/config/kdesktoprc
I found this in that file:
[ScreenSaver]
DelaySaverStart=true
Enabled=false
HideActiveWindowsFromSaver=true
HideCancelButton=false
Lock=false
LockGrace=60000
Saver=KSlideshow.desktop
Timeout=300
UseTDESAK=true
UseUnmanagedLockWindows=false
>
> >>> 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.
>
> Honestly, that sounds pretty cool.
>
> >>> 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, weird KDE. Okay.
>
> Does systemd start tdm for you, or do you manually startx instead?
> Something else entirely?
tdm has its own startup, like old 3.5 KDE. Its unk if systemd is involved
by this user.
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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