[mythtv-users] preventing screen from blacking out

Dave Sherohman esper at sherohman.org
Sat Oct 8 15:37:45 UTC 2005


On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:31:04AM -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >>How do I configure my desktop so that it won't black out ("sleep") after 
> >>a
> >>while and also so that it doesn't lock out the user, requiring password?
> 
> >Comment out the line Option       "dpms" in xorg.conf
> 
> It's already commented out in xorg.conf... :-/  But that screen blackout 
> still occurs. Also, the auto lock (I guess this is a gnome feature?) 
> happens. How do I turn that off?

Don't know anything about the autolock, but `xset s off` should turn
off the screen saver (blanking).

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