Yeah, sorry, guess I should have followed up on this. My monitor is pre-Energy Star, so "xset s 0" did the trick. Thanks for the help, everyone.
On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Marcus Hagn wrote: > hi, > if this is not helping, have a look in your bios. Somtimes > the powermanagment feature of the bios turns off the monitor > after some idle time. > regards > marcus > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 10:56:57PM -0500, scott wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > AFAIK, DPMS is what's responsible for this. > > > > Try sticking > > xset -dpms > > into your .xinitrc file (before blackbox is started) > > to turn DPMS off. > > > > On Saturday 08 December 2001 18:58, tps12 wrote: > > > I am a new user of Blackbox, and have it doing almost everything I want it > > > to. One behavior I haven't found an option to change is the feature that > > > blacks the screen after several minutes of inactivity. I prefer to turn > > > off the monitor manually when I'm leaving the room than to have the > > > computer guess when I don't want to look at the screen anymore. Can > > > someone direct me to the proper option (or place in the source) to change > > > this? Or is this something that's handled in X? > > > > > > ( tps12 ) > > > > - -- > > [scott] :: "ein kalter Tod f?r den sprecher von L?gen" > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: PGP 6.5.8 > > > > iQA/AwUBPAmmjWkF5Bwr8hiXEQKV9gCg4+FQdA+n5YEtlAJxmKDyAvtguDAAoKLP > > FNS6H4DpZyg1JxmJx1OCXYX4 > > =5btC > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ( tps12 )
