On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:18:52AM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote: > There are two primary controls which can blank the screen. One is the > screen saver widget the other is power management. Obviously the screen > saver can display an image but it can also just blank the screen. Power > management can spin down drives etc. but it also can blank the screen. If > you access both of these and set each one to never, your screen should stay > lit. > > One caveat, for some reason updates of either of these resets the time to > blank the screen to 10 min or so. Or at least it has done this in the past. > With everyone using at least LCD displays now I don't know why the screen > savers ship enabled by default. They were originally intended to stop CRT > burn in. That is if you left a static image on your screen for a > significant amount of time you would actually burn the image onto your > display. I don't believe burn in is a problem these days. My screen never > shut off when my computer is running, sometimes weeks of uptime before I > reboot for one reason or another. Haven't toasted my LCD monitor, yet! > Hope this helps.
Well at least with DPMS, making the screen go into power saving mode does save power, so having it do that by default does sound like a reasonable thing. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
