On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 07:55:37AM -0400, William Witteman wrote
Here's a problem I'm hoping to solve:
When idle for some amount of time, X shuts down the screen. When a program like VLC is playing a video (or even paused) this does not happen.
How can I tell X to never sleep? I just want it to send output down that cable, constantly, forever.
I manage screen burn and power wasting by turning off the monitor, but when the screen goes to sleep, my inexpensive monitor (an LG) sometimes has trouble noticing and won't display anything until X is restarted, which is a pain.
That may not be necessary. I experience "similar" behaviour, but the answer to that is *NOT* to restart X. Basically, X has told the monitor to not merely blank the screen, but to shut down altogether. When that happens to me, and I come back from a distraction elsewhere, I merely reach for the "Power" button on the monitor, and toggle it back on again. It's that simple. Try it. -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>