[SOLVED] Disabling screen blanking

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[SOLVED] Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by kexolino » Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:33 am

I have set these commands to run on login:

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xset -dpms
xset s noblank
xset s off
and there's Option "NODPMS" in the monitor section of xorg.conf. Still my screen blanks, and then keeps turning on and off. I don't have any kind of screensaver app installed. Checked the nvidia-settings, but there's nothing about blanking in there.

Output of xset q:

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Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000002
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    on     02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  30
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  no    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 600    Suspend: 600    Off: 600
  DPMS is Disabled
Is there anything else I could do to kill off blanking? It gets really annoying when watching long videos online.
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Re: Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Aug 01, 2014 2:43 pm

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=136543

Try with these options in xorg.conf :)
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Re: Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by rhowaldt » Fri Aug 01, 2014 4:55 pm

^ blast from the past!
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Re: Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by kexolino » Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:51 am

I'll try it out when I get home, thanks. Should I remove the "NODPMS" option then?
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Re: Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by kexolino » Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:44 pm

Allright, that worked. I removed the "NODPMS" option, dunno if it was necessary or not.
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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by anamika » Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:46 am

Thank you wuxmedia for ALL of your help...I apologies if I might of given the impression that I ignored Sir Bacon's suggestion...but I am fairly new to dwm and also I am definitely not as experienced as most of you here at the grill (for now!) but when I grow up I want to be like you grillers...thats for sure. Feeling more comfortable with the ~/.bashrc file I followed your advice and I am very HAPPY that I did.
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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:50 am

^ Stealing another man's words and passing them off as your own is tantamount to err, dunno. Not nice though.
Not only that but it's off topic.
If you can't at least quote what you've ripped off, you're on ze list..


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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by Alad » Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:35 am

^ Just look at his profile....
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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:07 am

banned already. ;)
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Re: [SOLVED] Disabling screen blanking

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:26 pm

/Solved.

I close it to avoid further confusion.

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