On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: > 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/shar > >e/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.
I just gave that a try, with 3000 6000 and 9000 But ISTR doing that once before, quite a ways up the log and having it reset to 450 300 600 in a half hour. I'll track it and see in the night when I'm up to water the daisys. Diabetic old farts like me are doomed to do that, its one way we get rid of surplus sugar. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
