Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 21 Jul 2008 17:25:50 GMT Henny Wilbrink <wsdwhw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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| Subject: Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out
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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"?

I've tried all of these, singly, and all together:

xset -dpms
xset s 0 0
xset s noblank
xset s off

I sure hope it isn't a case of some magic subset and in a specific order that
is required to do this. There should be a setting somewhere that controls
how long with no input before blanking or running the screen saver. Maybe if
that value is set to 0 it would disable.

I'm also finding that on text console, this command that should prevent the
blanking there, sometimes does not (e.g. sometimes it blanks out anyway):

setterm -blank 0

I also tried this inside xterm to see if xterm would "know what to do". No
such luck.

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