Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

In article <g5q69o01oai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 18 Jul 2008 10:38:34 GMT Bob Tennent <BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 18 Jul 2008 06:01:55 GMT, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
| > 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?
|
| Is KDE or GNOME responsible for the "blanking"?

I doubt it. It happens without them as a desktop environment. I'm using fvwm.
But I could try KDE for a while.

After it happens, check /var/log/{syslog,messages,Xorg.0.log} to see what
happened.

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