I agree saving power is a reasonable thing. That's one reason I don't recommend disabling DPMS completely. Spinning down the drives saves power and also servs to extend the lifespan of the drive, if only marginally. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Lennart Sorensen < lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
There are two primary controls which can blank the screen. One is the screen saver widget the other is power management. Obviously the screen saver can display an image but it can also just blank the screen. Power management can spin down drives etc. but it also can blank the screen. If you access both of these and set each one to never, your screen should stay lit.
One caveat, for some reason updates of either of these resets the time to blank the screen to 10 min or so. Or at least it has done this in the
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:18:52AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote: past.
With everyone using at least LCD displays now I don't know why the screen savers ship enabled by default. They were originally intended to stop CRT burn in. That is if you left a static image on your screen for a significant amount of time you would actually burn the image onto your display. I don't believe burn in is a problem these days. My screen never shut off when my computer is running, sometimes weeks of uptime before I reboot for one reason or another. Haven't toasted my LCD monitor, yet! Hope this helps.
Well at least with DPMS, making the screen go into power saving mode does save power, so having it do that by default does sound like a reasonable thing.
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