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.
Thanks!
PS The system is Debian testing.
As already suggested, xset -dpms and perhaps xset s off, can help, but you would need to do them after each login, given most window manager/desktop environments tend to change the values. I just fixed xfce on one machine at home yesterday by going into xfce4's power management settings and turning off putting the display to sleep or off, and no more screen going to sleep problem. -- Len Sorensen