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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/12/20 4:45 PM, Erik Merkle wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">If you disable DPMS in
your Desktop environment, and disable xscreensaver and find
that DPMS and/or screensaver is still kicking in, you can try
running "xset q" to query things. For example, my system
sometimes shows this:</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Screen Saver:<br>
prefer blanking: no allow exposures: no<br>
timeout: 1800 cycle: 900<br>
DPMS (Energy Star):<br>
Standby: 2700 Suspend: 0 Off: 3600<br>
DPMS is Enabled<br>
Monitor is On</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">To turn things off, I
can run "xset s off -dpms":</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Screen Saver:<br>
prefer blanking: no allow exposures: no<br>
timeout: 0 cycle: 900<br>
DPMS (Energy Star):<br>
Standby: 2700 Suspend: 0 Off: 3600<br>
DPMS is Disabled</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The "s off" option
turns off the screensaver (timeout: 1800 to timeout: 0) and
the "-dpms" option disables DPMS. On some of my systems, I put
that command in my user's $HOME/.xprofile and it essentially
disables them at login. I have done this with Xfce as well as
LXDE.</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hope that helps (YMMV),</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Erik<br>
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<p>Great tips. The xset q showed that screensaver was off;
'standby' and 'off' where 0 (never), but DPMS was enabled. So I
set it off with the settings app. So xset q now shows DPMS
disabled.<br>
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<p>It seems to be working at this point, but I need to switch from
the PC to another device for an hour or so and see if it comes
back correctly. I've left the PC at the Mythtv top menu.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
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<p>Jim A</p>
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