On Thursday 24 February 2011 16:23:31 Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 February 2011 19:21:34 Dale wrote: > >> When I upgraded to KDE4, I had to start using xset to handle turning my > >> monitor off. I put it in the startup section and it seems to work OK. > > > > This is strange - I added Option "DPMS" "on" under the Monitor section > > in the xorg.conf, but it won't take. > > > > xset +dpms works fine ... > > > > Why would that be? > > I think there is a thread where I asked the same thing. When I first > upgraded to KDE4, my monitor would not turn off unless I turned it off > myself. I set up a script that runs when I login to cut off the > monitor. I have another script that sets it back when I log out. I put > it in ~.kde4/Autostart. It's the same commands I tested manually and it > works fine. > > If I recall correctly, KDE was not quite up to speed on controlling the > monitor with DPMS yet. That was back in the 4.1 days so that may have > changed but given you are having issues with it, maybe it is still > having problems. This could be due to the hal/udev/polkit switch as > well. They may be letting all that settle so that they only have to > write the code once. I would do that if it was me. ;-) > > This is my settings when I am logged in: > > xset dpms 3600 3600 3600 > > I think that is one hour. I'm pretty sure it is measured in seconds not > minutes.
I would have thought that DPMS is a an xorg function/issue, rather than KDE's. Things went sideways here when I upgrade xorg-server from 1.9.2 to 1.9.4. -- Regards, Mick
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