Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:33:00PM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: xset ... xset Could someone tell me what is wrong with setting BlankTime xx SuspendTimeyy OffTimezz in XF86Config I'd think that's the preferred way for Global defaults... --

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver - Solution

I'm curious about this as well. My monitor docs say that repeated degaussing (T = 20 min) is bad, so if your monitor does that on reboot maybe this is something to consider? Anyway, as I tell my students: no idea, but tell me if you find out. -chris Tim Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

From: Tim Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... There is also a measure of disagreement, in general, over whether to use a screensaver or have the monitor power-down. The suggestion is that cycling the monitor ht will reduce it's life. Ignore that suggestion. Leaving the monitor fully on all the

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800, thus spake Tim Wood: Hello, I'm running potato on a desktop and a laptop using ice-wm/gnome in X. The laptop is set in the bios to blank the screen and that's fine. The desktop screen blanks in console but not in X. I'm trying to wean my

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

--- Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800, thus spake Tim Wood: snip Somewhere in your home directory you have a file called .xsession? Stick a line like this in it. xscreensaver -timeout 2 -cycle 2 -no-splash That should get

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

try to experiment with xset dpms from xterm, once you find it works, add it to one of the x startup files, I suggest xdm startup file (see /etc/X11/xdm/*), what I do is set xscreensaver to start saving in something like 10 minutes and xset dpms to turn off monitor after 30 min or something like

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

you can also start xscreensaver in xdm (if you use xdm of course!) startup files - see /etc/X11/xdm/* then anybody who starts X (using xdm) will have the screensaver... erik Tim Wood wrote: --- Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800,

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

xset ... xset Could someone tell me what is wrong with setting BlankTime xx SuspendTimeyy OffTimezz in XF86Config

RE: Monitor power-down/screensaver - Solution

Thanks to all who responded to my query. As my main interest was in saving the monitor I accepted the suggestion of setting the BlankTime in XF86Config. I hadn't even thought of that one. So no need for a screensaver at all. I have yet to decide whether the life of the monitor is affected by