Thank you for the suggestions, misc. xset -dpms did not seem to work xset s noblank seems to partially work. Instead of my screen going black - it now goes white-greyish
Nonetheless the screen is now covered and whichever applications I was using are no longer visible due to the screen being blanked out Does anyone have further suggestions? On Tue, 2024-10-01 at 20:05 -0500, izzy Meyer wrote: > On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:12:33 -0400 > David Anthony <d...@silentsystems.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Despite my best efforts - CWM always makes my monitor shutoff after > > a > > few minutes. I'm not talking about screensaver, sleep or hibernate - > > rather the monitor is entirely black but appears "on". Moving the > > mouse resumes the display. > > > > Does anyone know how I might stop this? > > That's automatic display power management. Comes default with how > Xenocara is configured, regardless of window manager. Its trivial to > tweak that behaviour though. > > Run $ xset -dpms to disable it temporarily, and $ xset +dpms to > re-enable it. > > It could also be worthwhile to do $ xset s noblank to disable > screen blanking. To flop screen blanking back on, $ xset s blank. > > You can probably configure your .xsession file to run that, or > perhaps > hack together a toggleable bind for CWM. I'm not a CWM user, so IDK > the specifics on what that could look like. Best of luck to you. > > This xset stuff *should* be applicable on all X11 sessions that > don't implement some sort of their own power management system, as > well. > > Read more about it in the xset(1) manpage: > > $ man 1 xset > > Peace- >
