[Mageia-dev] Desktop monitor powering down

Wed Aug 8 13:42:09 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 08/08/12 11:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+Generally speaking these settings are done in the display environment
+GUIs (i.e. Gnome and KDE) thus avoiding having to call xset directly by
+the user or in scripts etc. This is just a command line interface to
+things the DE's should wrap already.
+
+So I'd go looking for those bits breaking and/or something in your user
+account messing up. i.e. try it with a fresh boot and logging into a
+fresh user account and see if the problem still occurs. That might help
+narrow down where the real problem lies.
+
+Col
+
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