display power consumption [Was: Re: X11 screen blanking issue]

2014-11-29 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
n...@holland-consulting.net (Nick Holland), 2014.10.25 (Sat) 06:08 (CEST): [big snip of the original discussion on screen blanking and it's handling by mplayer] Personally, I'm slowly losing interest in screen blanking. LCD screens draw little power when on, [...] [snipping again] A laptop

Re: display power consumption [Was: Re: X11 screen blanking issue]

2014-11-29 Thread David Coppa
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Marcus MERIGHI mcmer-open...@tor.at wrote: n...@holland-consulting.net (Nick Holland), 2014.10.25 (Sat) 06:08 (CEST): [big snip of the original discussion on screen blanking and it's handling by mplayer] Personally, I'm slowly losing interest in screen

X11 screen blanking issue

2014-10-24 Thread frantisek holop
on a thinkpad X60s this works: xset dpms force off this doesnt: xset +dpms xset dpms 0 0 300 anybody has an idea how can i make the screen blanking work? OpenBSD 5.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #442: Thu Oct 23 13:25:47 MDT 2014 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP

Re: X11 screen blanking issue

2014-10-24 Thread frantisek holop
ok, it seems a paused mplayer could be the reason. is that expected? -f -- if you stand up to be counted someone will take your seat.

Re: X11 screen blanking issue

2014-10-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2014-10-24, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: ok, it seems a paused mplayer could be the reason. is that expected? Yes. MPlayer disables screen blanking. When you watch a movie, you usually don't press keys or move the mouse, but you still don't want your screen to switch off.

Re: X11 screen blanking issue

2014-10-24 Thread frantisek holop
Christian Weisgerber, 24 Oct 2014 21:46: On 2014-10-24, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: ok, it seems a paused mplayer could be the reason. is that expected? Yes. MPlayer disables screen blanking. When you watch a movie, you usually don't press keys or move the mouse, but you

Re: X11 screen blanking issue

2014-10-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/24/14 20:57, frantisek holop wrote: Christian Weisgerber, 24 Oct 2014 21:46: On 2014-10-24, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: ok, it seems a paused mplayer could be the reason. is that expected? Yes. MPlayer disables screen blanking. When you watch a movie, you usually