Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

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Subject: Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out
Date: 21 Jul 2008 14:13:40 GMT
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:18:14 -0500 Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 18 Jul 2008 in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.x, in article
| <g5q69o01oai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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|>|>| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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|>|>|> 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.
|
|>|> And it still has no effect. Any other ideas to try?

How about "xset s off"?

Henny Wilbrink
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