Re: Turning off screen blanking



Joerg Redmann <redmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is the best way to turn off screen blanking?
Putting a little script with "xset s noblank" in
~/.kde/Autostart didn't work.

I think you wanted to do

xset s off

In addition try

xset -dpms

You should also find these settings in some kde gui.

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Nik
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