Re: X turn off monitors automatically, not with mplayer running

[Mark Carroll]

On 07 Oct 2017, x9p wrote:

> I am trying to disable the energy saving without mplayer, so I run the
> command:
>
> $ xset -dpms
>
> But it did not worked for me. Any hints on the proper way?

I have an .xinitrc on one OpenBSD machine that has,

        xset dpms 0 0 0
        xset s off

The secret may be in one of the above.

-- Mark