On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > 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?
If the system insists on setting dpms, can you change those three numbers with dpms 1 2 3 only using some *very* large numbers. (DE stuff is beyond me.) Cheers, David.
