Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 17 Jul 2008 13:33:29 GMT Niklaus Kuehnis <kuehnik_0505@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|> I want to have X Windows stop blanking out the screen after some idle time.
|> I've tried things like "xset s 0 0" and "xset s noblank", but this seems to
|> have no effect towards my goal. I want to have the original screen just
|> stay on there indefinitely. I don't want it to switch to a screensaver,
|> either.
|
| man xset
| xset -dpms
| xset s off

And it still has no effect. Any other ideas to try?

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