[mythtv-users] How to disable screen blank/screensaver on MythBuntu 10.04?

[Gordon McCrae]

  On 25/08/10 20:14, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Kevin Ross<kevin at familyross.net>  wrote:
>>   On 08/23/2010 05:04 AM, Craig Huff wrote:
>>> My remote front end keeps going off and blanking the screen or
>>> starting up a screensaver when Mythwelcome or Mythfrontend is running
>>> and often locks up so it has to be rebooted.
>>>
>>> I have tried googling, but... there's either not enough information or
>>> too much to sift through.  Here's hoping someone here can point me in
>>> the right direction.
>>>
>>> I am running the default xfce desktop, not gnome, kde, ...
>>>
>>> I tried just commenting out the xscreensaver invocation in the
>>> /etc/xfce... path -- can get exact location if needed -- but it still
>>> went to a blank screen.
>>>
>>> I haven't even figured out yet what does the screen blanking.
>>>
>>> How do I either train these two functions to stay asleep when
>>> Mythwelcome and/or Mythfrontend are running _no matter what_ or stop
>>> them from ever running?
>>>
>>> Craig.
>> X has built-in monitor power management, but it usually gets disabled by a
>> desktop environment power manager program, since they like to control things
>> themselves.
>>
>> But if you're not running a desktop environment, to control the power
>> settings with X, man xorg.conf and look for DPMS.  You can add something
>> like this to your xorg.conf file:
>>
>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>     Option "BlankTime" "0"
>>     Option "StandbyTime" "0"
>>     Option "SuspendTime" "0"
>>     Option "OffTime" "0"
>> EndSection
>>
> Long ago, I remember putting something like:
>
> xset dpms off (or something close - man xset, and you can run it from
> a terminal to test)cc
>
> into my ..xinitrc file to force my monitor to stay on..  That was
> 10years ago though, and flaky (new) dpms was giving me grief -
> resetting my monitor calibration every time it would kick in..  same
> rules apply today as far as xset goes though..
>
> -Greg
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Put the following in your .xinitrc for the user that's running mythfrontend:

xset s off
xset -dpms

I have the following .xinitrc for the "mythtv" user on my dedicated 
MythTV FEs:

{
xmodmap .xmodmaprc
xset s off
xset -dpms
mythfrontend
} > .xinitrc.log 2>&1

Cheers
Gordon