On 6/5/06, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found a solution that works for me. See the bug listed at > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/40571. I ran > the command: > > /usr/bin/xset dpms 43200 43200 43200 > > Now, I probably *should* go find what that command does.. :) > If you haven't already gotten your answer from the man page... ;-)
That command sets the amount of time before the energy saver of your monitor kicks in, in seconds. DPMS (Display Power Managment Signaling) has three states: standby, suspend, and off. Those numbers represent how long until your monitor goes into each of those states. So, for example, you can set the first number to a lower number and your monitor goes into standby for a while before going into suspend mode (I have no clue what the diff is between standby and suspend - I'm guessing varying levels of power savings. "off" is pretty self explanatory though). Other useful ways to run xset: xset q The q is for query. Tells you a bunch of stuff, like if DPMS is enabled. xset +dpms Turns on DPMS (xset -dpms turns if off). If you find that you've set DPMS times but they aren't kicking in when they should, run "xset +dpms" to turn it on (though, running it as above with the timeout numbers implicitly turns it on as well, so you don't need to do both). I find sometimes my monitor doesn't turn off when it should, and running "xset q" tells me DPMS is turned off. I'm pretty sure the culprit is either mplayer or xine or vlc (I use all three, depending on the format of the video file). Those programs turn off DPMS when they start up, because obviously you wouldn't want your monitor to power down in the middle of a long video, but sometimes they "forget" for whatever reason to turn it back on. "xset +dpms" fixes that. Ian _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
