Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 2008-07-21, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

If the monitor itself has a menu, you might be able to disable power
saving there.
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