On March 17, 2015 7:55:37 AM EDT, William Witteman <wwitteman@gmail.com> 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.
The monitor sleep functionality is called DPMS. At run time you can disable it with the xset command. xset -dpms The more permanent option is to create a conf snippet in your xorg.conf.d. Once again the arch wiki has great docs. And this specific information will readily translate to debian or any other distro. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling -- Scott Sullivan