[Mageia-dev] Desktop monitor powering down

Wed Aug 8 12:28:19 CEST 2012

On 08/07/2012 09:40 PM, David Walser wrote:
+> It's not a matter of doing xset +dpms, it's generally enabled by 
+> default. It's a matter of how it's configured. It has three numbers 
+> for different levels of powerdown, usually you'll see three numbers in 
+> the GUI configurators too. So "xset dpms 0 0 0" would have fixed your 
+> problem too. So the question is what is setting your settings to 
+> something crazy and why. I usually set mine to xset dpms 0 0 1200 
+> which turns the monitor off after 20 minutes of inactivity. 
+This is a fresh install about a week old.  After install, I have some 
+scripts that re-install all packages that had been installed on the last 
+system and do some configuration.  But I don't touch xset, and in fact I 
+didn't know anything about dpms until Col posted and I looked it up.
+
+So, I guess that whatever enables it by default is the first place to 
+look for the 30-second problem.  After that, it would have to have been 
+in a package install script.
+