[manjaro-dev] DPMS

[Philip Müller]

Thx. I added your fix to Live-Session to be enabled on all editions. It 
makes more sense to prevent any display blanking on installation:

http://git.manjaro.org/core/manjaroiso/commit/b1494bec73705898eafeb18ceaa160b78f5b151b

Am 13.11.2013 22:52, schrieb Carl Duff:
> That's the beauty of it; the commands are not permanent. They are only 
> executed for the session. I implemented this by adding them to the 
> Openbox autostart file. I think you might be able to put them in the 
> xfce autostart.
>
> To switch it back on the command is: *xset +dpms. *To put the 
> screensaver back in it's: *xset s on.* it is also possible to set the 
> duration for the system to wait before blanking the screen, etc. 
> However, nothing XFCE's own power manager couldn't handle.
>
> Arch has a good wiki article: 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling
>
> Will add all this to the wiki (already on the forum). Recovering after 
> my panic SLiM article (SLiM now auto-detects installed desktops).
>
>
> On 13 November 2013 21:37, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org 
> <mailto:philm at manjaro.org>> wrote:
>
>     This is good news. What are the cmds to enable it again?
>     How do you implement it into your edition?
>     Might be useful to disable it by default but tell people how to
>     enable it if needed ...
>
>     Please write it into our wiki at troubleshoot.
>
>     Am 13.11.2013 22:29, schrieb J Fernyhough:
>
>         Well that might explain why my screen keeps blanking even as
>         I'm using
>         it! Testing that command now.
>
>         Why has this affected Manjaro? None of the other distros I've used
>         (XFCE desktop or otherwise) have shown this behaviour.
>
>         J
>
>         On 13 November 2013 21:25, Carl Duff <cdrw2400 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:cdrw2400 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi Phil,
>
>             Users have been reporting that their screen automatically
>             blank after
>             10mins, and that their systems will suspend after about an
>             hour where idle.
>             This is despite mucking around with desktop power
>             managers. I have tracked
>             the problem to DPMS (Display Power Management Settings),
>             which is
>             automatically enabled by default.
>
>             For Openbox, I have disabled DPMS. The command so disable
>             DPMS and disable
>             screen blanking is: xset -dpms; xset s off
>
>             Up to you if DPMS should also be disabled on XFCE, etc.
>
>             Carl
>
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