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Re: dpms control?

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On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:57:38 David Wright wrote:
>
>> On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 20:37:09 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:13:08 davidson wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>>>> Greetings all;
>>>>>>> I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker
>>>>>>> kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect.  So
>>>>>>> how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration?
>>>>
>>>> Since we seem to be troubleshooting, what is the output of
>>>>
>>>>   $ xset q
>>>
>>> gene@coyote:/media$ xset q
>>> Keyboard Control:
>>>   auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  10    LED mask:  00000000
>>>   XKB indicators:
>>>     00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock:
>>> off 03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:
>>> off 06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:
>>> off 09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:
>>> off 12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
>>>   auto repeat delay:  594    repeat rate:  14
>>>   auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
>>>                         fadfffefffedffff
>>>                         9fffffffffffffff
>>>                         fff7ffffffffffff
>>>   bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
>>> Pointer Control:
>>>   acceleration:  20/10    threshold:  4
>>> Screen Saver:
>>>   prefer blanking:  no    allow exposures:  yes
>>>   timeout:  0    cycle:  0
>>> Colors:
>>>   default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:
>>> 0xffffff Font Path:
>>>
>>> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr
>>> /share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/shar
>>> e/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins DPMS (Energy
>>> Star):
>>>   Standby: 450    Suspend: 600    Off: 900
>>>   DPMS is Disabled
>>>
>>> But if I repeat that query half san hour later, something has
>>> re-enabled dpms.  Murphy?
>>
>> If the system insists on setting dpms, can you change those three
>> numbers with   dpms 1 2 3   only using some *very* large numbers.
>>
>> (DE stuff is beyond me.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David.
>
>
> I just gave that a try, with 3000 6000 and 9000

How did that go?

> But ISTR doing that once before, quite a ways up the log and having
> it reset to 450 300 600 in a half hour.
>
> I'll track it and see in the night when I'm up to water the daisys.

How were the daisies holding up?

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dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-20 17:30 +0200
  Re: dpms control? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-06-20 18:10 +0200
    Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-20 21:20 +0200
      Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-20 23:20 +0200
    Re: dpms control? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-21 00:20 +0200
      Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-21 00:30 +0200
  Re: dpms control? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-21 00:30 +0200
    Re: dpms control? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-21 00:30 +0200
    Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-21 00:40 +0200
      Re: dpms control? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-21 02:10 +0200
        Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-21 02:30 +0200
      Re: dpms control? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-21 02:20 +0200
        Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-21 02:40 +0200
          Re: dpms control? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-06-21 03:00 +0200
            Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-21 03:20 +0200
              Re: dpms control? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-26 21:50 +0200
                Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-26 22:40 +0200
                Re: dpms control? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-06-26 23:30 +0200
                Re: dpms control? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2020-06-27 17:30 +0200
                Re: dpms control? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-06-27 18:40 +0200

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