I agree saving power is a reasonable thing. That's one reason I don't recommend disabling DPMS completely. Spinning down the drives saves power and also servs to extend the lifespan of the drive, if only marginally.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Lennart Sorensen < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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