On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 06:52:53AM -0300, x9p wrote: > Hi > > If am running a video with mplayer, pause it, and lock X with xlock - my > monitors are not turned off for inactivity. > > If mplayer is not running, after a couple of minutes my monitors are > automatically turned off. > > 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? > > cheers. >
Have you tried switching to mpv ? I've given up trying to make modern things work with mplayer, the mpv "fork/reimplementation" is much better behaved with respect to most things.