Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com): > On Monday 17 August 2015 16:40:04 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 17 August 2015 16:31:04 doug wrote:
> > > Well, I didn't know about dpms, but now I have looked at the man page, > > > it is still not clear to me. > > > I don't use a screen saver. If I enter xset -dpms does that stop the > > > display from timing out? And > > > how do you get out of that mode? +dpms? > > > > I never want to - it just goes back on when I reboot, which I don't wnat it > > to do, but I haven't got round to solving making it permanent. (There's > > been a lot about it on this list.) But I'll test and get back to you. > > +dpms does indeed seem likely. > > Well, I just tried it. +dpms made the dispaly start timing out again, after > I > had previously used <$ xset -dpms>. xset q is quite useful to see what's set. In some ways it's a clearer inventory of its possibilities than man xset. Cheers, David.
