dman wrote:
I want my display to blank (or "off" or "suspend" or "standby" or
whatever) if it is left idle for a long period of time. I have this
working in GNOME if I am logged in and leave the screen saver running,
but I want it to work even if the gdm login screen is displayed. I
looked at 'man XFree86-4' and found the following relevant options :
# time is in minutes
Option "BlankTime" "35"
#Option "StandbyTime" "2"
#Option "SuspendTime" "3"
Option "OffTime" "60"
They are in the "ServerLayout" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
However I don't see anything happen if I watch gdm for a while. (I
tried smaller numbers before so I wouldn't have to wait long) I also
have
Load "dpms"
in the "Module" section and
Option "DPMS"
in the "Monitor" section.
Any ideas why the monitor doesn't go black?
-D
Check /var/log/XFree.0.log to see that DPMS is enabled.
You did stop and restart gdm after changing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4?
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Jerome