HOWTO: Prevent Screen Blanking While playing DVD

[bryce203]

This Worked For me:
IN the file /etcX11/xorg.conf
under the section "Monitor" change "DPMS" to "DPMS" "off"

Example:

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "COB TFDTV2617"
HorizSync 31.0 - 96.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS" "off"
EndSection

[askrieger]

Re: HOWTO: Prevent Screen Blanking While playing DVD

Which version of Kubuntu are you using? Nowadays, many of us don't have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, (or a problem with DVDs).

[bryce203]

Re: HOWTO: Prevent Screen Blanking While playing DVD

Lucid

[arochester]

Re: HOWTO: Prevent Screen Blanking While playing DVD

DPMS = Display Power Management System

If I go Screensaver>Advanced>Power Management - can be turned on or off.

(I'm using Jaunty)

[oshunluvr]

Re: HOWTO: Prevent Screen Blanking While playing DVD

Another way: If you want dpms normally but want to turn it off for specific things like watching a movie the command is

xset -dpms

and to turn it back on

xset +dpms

So lets say you use vlc to watch a dvd - the command is

xset -dpms && vlc && xset +dpms

The && tells the command interpreter to "wait until this command is complete, then do..."

You could easily enter the above into a menu entry and you wouldn't even know it was happening. If you wanted - you could write a script for each program you want to use in this manner and launch the program from the script. That way, "clicking" on a file is dolphin would launch your script and de-activate your dpms until you were done, then re-activate it.


If you want dpms off all the time and you don't have an xorg.conf you can disable it with
xset -dpms in /etc/profile for all users or ~/.profile for any individual user.