On Mon Jul 10 2017 10:45:46, Sworddragon <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The DPMS settings in xscreensaver-demo are not grayed out on my system,
> DPMS is there enabled but it never kicks in.

Ok well that shouldn't be. I don't know what's wrong.

> Why is it a "terrible idea" if it would in this case?

There's no sensible way to have both systems, xscreensaver and xset,
control these settings, because there's no way to know which one was
used last. Updates are not timestamped. So one has to be in control and
override the other or chaos ensues.

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