Re: 10.3 KDE Display blanks out after 7 minutes

On Nov 23, 3:57 am, Sub Genius <y...@xxxxx> wrote:

Try running "xset q" which should show the current "x display" settings.
man xset will show you all the options and flags.

To your question/situation:
- xset s noblank = turn off blanking
- xset -dpms = turn of the display power management service/system

I have a little script that runs when I log on which turns off the bell,
and disables both blanking and dpms.

Hope that helps some/heads you in the right direction.

Paul

Thank you! Yes, this is the key, which I also got from Akkana Peck
in the local LUG this afternoon. Here's her excellent writeup on it:

http://shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html

The xset man page is also good. "xset q" reveals the 420 second
timeout value on my system! All I have to do to stop the display
blanking and subsequent power-down is to run "xset -dpms" after
X has started.

The setterm program serves a similar function for the virtual (Ctrl-
Alt-Fn) consoles. "setterm -blank 0" and "setterm -powersave off"
eliminate
the 10 minute timeout I was having there (probably only one of them
is needed).
.

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