[ale] Power Management & /etc/default

[Watson, Keith]

Open a shell and type the following

xset s off
xset -dpms


If you want to make the settings permanent edit the following file:

   /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

and place the flowing lines before # invoke global X session script

# turn off screen blanking and monitor energy star features
/usr/bin/xset s off
/usr/bin/xset -dpms


keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Nolan
> Voight
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 13:12
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Power Management & /etc/default
> 
> I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint last month, for the usual reason.
> I'm running it on a PC, and am having the dickens of a time trying to
> figure out how to keep it from going into Standby or Suspend long
> enough for me to watch a doggone movie. The dconf Editor doesn't seem
> to pay any mind to the values I've increased in what seemed the likely
> places in org-gnome-settings-daemon-plugins-power. Maybe I should try
> 0 instead of large numbers--would that mean False, or would that throw
> it into suspend immediately?
> 
> Reading this page:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement
> makes me wonder if I should try editing /etc/default/acpi-support, but
> reading that file, the lines which would help are in the Legacy
> (deprecated) section. I've called up the man page for pm-hibernate,
> but have no idea where I would control that. Any suggestions?
> Something real obvious I've missed?
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