On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 07:55:37AM -0400, William Witteman wrote > Here's a problem I'm hoping to solve: > > When idle for some amount of time, X shuts down the screen. When a > program like VLC is playing a video (or even paused) this does not > happen. > > How can I tell X to never sleep? I just want it to send output down > that cable, constantly, forever. > > I manage screen burn and power wasting by turning off the monitor, but > when the screen goes to sleep, my inexpensive monitor (an LG) > sometimes has trouble noticing and won't display anything until X is > restarted, which is a pain.
That may not be necessary. I experience "similar" behaviour, but the answer to that is *NOT* to restart X. Basically, X has told the monitor to not merely blank the screen, but to shut down altogether. When that happens to me, and I come back from a distraction elsewhere, I merely reach for the "Power" button on the monitor, and toggle it back on again. It's that simple. Try it. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
