Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 17:10:08 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: If the blanking is caused by a screensaver application under the control of your desktop environment, that should work (I guess). But if it's caused by either DPMS being invoked, or X blanking the monitor, then you'll need to

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 July 2015 06:21:48 Petter Adsen wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minutes

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 (EDT), Gene Heskett wrote: My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minutes in a row.

shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minutes in a row. So obviously the solution is not an xset command in the startup.

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 14:35:04 Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager Session and Startup Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchecking all the blankers and setting the times north of 10

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minutes in a row. So

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 July 2015 21:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: might be useful if the above doesn't work out for you. for a session, however long it be, though not permanently: $ xset -dpms enter Or you may have to do: # xset -dpms enter That works until you next reboot. In my experience turning the

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Mike Castle
For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager Session and Startup Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. There may be additional things you need to do to make sure session stuff isn't loading screensavers through some other mechanism (i.e, squirreled away in a saved

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 15:53:39 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 16 July 2015 14:35:04 Brian wrote: On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread D. R. Evans
Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager Session and Startup Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchecking all the

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:10:08PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager Session and Startup Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver.

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 19:10:08 D. R. Evans wrote: Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager Session and Startup Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. Hadn't