screen energy saving

[dougmack]

Need to shut down the monitor after 20 minutes of no use. I have looked at the various inputs I could find in the forum, and added one file that was in the repo but not loaded--catdoc--
whatever that is.  One poster said that if he went to Configure Your Desktop>Power Management>Screen Energy Saving and "reset" it after every boot, it would work, and that is my
observation also.  If I just move the time by 1 minute, up or down, and hit apply, the screen will shut down like it's supposed to. But on reboot, it will not, unless I go jiggle the time-out
again.  PCLinuxOS 2012.12, just reinstalled within the last month or so, all updates. Running 3.2.18-pclos2.pae.bfs (it didn't work on the no-pae version either). CPU is Intel Celeron.
E3400 @ 2.60 GHz. Display: VGA compatible controller, GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] NVidia. (Using the NVidia Display Settings GUI I got the card to work right, finally.) If you need
any further information, please let me know.

I hope by this time someone has come up with a solution. I think (hope) it's the last problem area that I have to fix.

All inputs gratefully accepted!  --doug

[Yankee]

The regular screensaver-power management program
should work on all PCL's, haven't heard before where it didn't.

I turned off the screensaver on my LXDE because I just wanted
to turn on-off the screen at will, like when doing backups, watching
movies,  or just sitting around.

xset dpms 0 0 0

The above leaves the screen on

xset dpms 0 0 10

The above turns the screen completely off after 10 seconds

Putting those commands in a desktop icon, a panel icon, or as I do
in an openbox menu selection (in LXDE)  puts me in complete control
over the screen when I know it will not be in use for an extended time.

I create two files with those commands in /usr/share/applications and
they will run when selected from the menu, or if the files are placed in
the Desktop, or if I configure them to just appear in the panel.

Why your normal screensaver/power-management isn't working ?   

[dougmack]

There are at least 3 threads in the forum with this complaint, and I never found one that makes it work.  --doug

[kjpetrie]

Sounds like a hardware/driver/desktop start-up order problem.