How to turn off DPMS at the start.

[Simon]

I was having an old issue crop up with my upgrade to 14.04. Every 5 minutes my screen would go black and if I left it the monitor shut down. This is not well defined in the Systems Settings, as you can spend all day looking at Power Management and Screen Savers as the cause. Turns out it is the Power Manager but to actually "see" it, you need to go into terminal and type;

$ xset q

Which returns;

DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 600    Suspend: 600    Off: 600
  DPMS is Enabled

The help says typing;

$ xset -dpms

will turn it off, but this only lasts for the one session.

This is my easy solution;

[MoonRise]

Nice find!

[oshunluvr]

Simon, that's a genius move. K.I.S.S., right?

[Wheel Inventor]

Alternatives

Add 'Option "DPMS" "false"' to xorg.conf

Display Power Management Signaling: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ment_Signaling


Execute the xset command at KDE Startup

KDE System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart




Execute the xset by click

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=116323

Description:
On/Off Switch is a simple plasmoid that executes commands when the switch is toggled...

[GreyGeek]

You can also add the xset -dpms to /etc/profile.
Or, you can put it in ~.bash_profile
Or, you can put it in ~.bashrc and source that file in ~.bash_profile

I love the flexibility and versatility of Linux!