[SOLVED] Blanking blank monitor

[clarms]

No not cursing, just wondering how and where to change the blanking of the monitor. This is to change the amount of time to the blanking or to turn it off and back on. Whether this is set by a command or in a gui, where is the setting stored?

[Village Idiot]

Use the command: xset

For information on it's usage, type: xset --help

HTH

 

[clarms]

Use the command: xset

For information on it's usage, type: xset --help

HTH

 

Thanks! I was not sure if this was it or if there was a gui. It looks like it is part of xset's screensaver control. Will mess with this. Fwiw the --help gets an unknown option, so guessing it is just xset.

[Village Idiot]

Fwiw the --help gets an unknown option, so guessing it is just xset.

Ah yeah sorry. Operating the forum under the influence.  Please excuse me. 

Fwiw,  you can search google for xset and you'll find lots of examples for this command. As for the gui, you might prefer to set-up some desktop shortcuts for yourself. For example, an icon on the task bar that, when clicked, turns off the monitor.

Have a lot of fun!

 

[Dragynn]

Hi Clarms,

more info on xset:

I don't know which version you are using of PCLOS, but all I think have menu options for Screensaver and Power management, you can adjust those settings to turn off the screensaver and power management and it will stop screen blanking. Note that those services still need to be running to accomplish this. If you turn off those two services completely in PCC so they don't start up at all when you boot, the underlying default settings of xset take over, so your screen will go blank every 600 seconds. You can turn them off manually after you boot, but the settings you input will not persist when you re-boot. If you don't want to do this every time, there is a small script Texstar wrote, that you can set to run on every boot-up that will do it. See this thread here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,81771.0.html

 Good luck!

[clarms]

Thanks for the link! And thanks Texstar! The little script works perfect.

... If you don't want to do this every time, there is a small script Texstar wrote, that you can set to run on every boot-up that will do it. See this thread here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,81771.0.html

 Good luck!