Re: [gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/7/8 Norman Rieß 

> Hi,
>
> i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far.
>
> I used various methods:
>
> * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen power saving
> * setterm -blank 0
> * echoing "setterm -blank 0" to the dev/ttyXs
> * xset s off
> * Kernel parameter in Grub consoleblank=0
>
> A kernelsetting for this seem to have existed in older kernels, but
> seems to have vanished in recent ones.
>
> All methods have failed.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to just keep the screen on?
>
> Thanks,
> Norman
>
>
I have in my openbox autostart.sh "xset -dpms s off". this disables the
sceensaver (as you tried), but also turns Energy Star (DPMS) features off.
So no power management turns off the screen.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Randolph Maaßen


Re: [gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08.07.2013 14:43, schrieb Randolph Maaßen:
> 2013/7/8 Norman Rieß mailto:nor...@smash-net.org>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so
> far.
> 
> I used various methods:
> 
> * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen power saving
> * setterm -blank 0
> * echoing "setterm -blank 0" to the dev/ttyXs
> * xset s off
> * Kernel parameter in Grub consoleblank=0
> 
> A kernelsetting for this seem to have existed in older kernels, but
> seems to have vanished in recent ones.
> 
> All methods have failed.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to just keep the screen on?
> 
> Thanks,
> Norman
> 
> 
> I have in my openbox autostart.sh "xset -dpms s off". this disables the
> sceensaver (as you tried), but also turns Energy Star (DPMS) features off. 
> So no power management turns off the screen.
> 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>  
> Randolph Maaßen
> 

Thank you! It works.

Regards,
Norman