On Friday 26 June 2020 15:46:15 davidson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote: > >> On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote: > >>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote: > >>>>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>>>>> Greetings all; > >>>>>>> I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker > >>>>>>> kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So > >>>>>>> how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration? > >>>> > >>>> Since we seem to be troubleshooting, what is the output of > >>>> > >>>> $ xset q > >>> > >>> gene@coyote:/media$ xset q > >>> Keyboard Control: > >>> auto repeat: on key click percent: 10 LED mask: > >>> 00000000 XKB indicators: > >>> 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll > >>> Lock: off 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: > >>> Sleep: off 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: > >>> Misc: off 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: > >>> Shift Lock: off 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off > >>> auto repeat delay: 594 repeat rate: 14 > >>> auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf > >>> fadfffefffedffff > >>> 9fffffffffffffff > >>> fff7ffffffffffff > >>> bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 > >>> Pointer Control: > >>> acceleration: 20/10 threshold: 4 > >>> Screen Saver: > >>> prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes > >>> timeout: 0 cycle: 0 > >>> Colors: > >>> default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: > >>> 0xffffff Font Path: > >>> > >>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/u > >>>sr > >>> /share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/s > >>>har e/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins DPMS > >>> (Energy Star): > >>> Standby: 450 Suspend: 600 Off: 900 > >>> DPMS is Disabled > >>> > >>> But if I repeat that query half san hour later, something has > >>> re-enabled dpms. Murphy? > >> > >> If the system insists on setting dpms, can you change those three > >> numbers with dpms 1 2 3 only using some *very* large numbers. > >> > >> (DE stuff is beyond me.) > >> > >> Cheers, > >> David. > > > > I just gave that a try, with 3000 6000 and 9000 > > How did that go?
I can turn it off, once, then its back to the 7.5 minute defaults. I've given up. I cannot force it on for more than 7.5 minutes by anything but a mouse wiggler. And I'm now alone, they finally found a rest home for my missus, but she is quarantined for 2 weeks. At nearly 8g's a month. Out in the sticks, at least a 1:20 drive from here. And getting sick of my own cooking, but I've been doing all that since she fell and broke a hip nearly 4 years ago. > > But ISTR doing that once before, quite a ways up the log and having > > it reset to 450 300 600 in a half hour. > > > > I'll track it and see in the night when I'm up to water the daisys. > > How were the daisies holding up? Not well. ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>