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Re: need help killing screen blanker

From Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: need help killing screen blanker
Date 2024-08-26 19:20 +0200
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> Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen
> blanker?  And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.

IME, this is a bit of an uphill battle, sadly.
Basically, lots of tools can request/cause some kind of "screen
blanking" so you can never be sure you've disabled all of them.

Assuming you have a very vanilla installation, I'd look at
the XFCE power manager settings where you can turn off the "display
power management".

Another option might be to set the "presentation mode" when the lathe is
in use.  You can do that manually by right-clicking on the power icon in
the tray (assuming you have enabled "System tray icon" in the XFCE power
manager settings) but that can be done programatically as well (I hope
someone here can tell us how).


        Stefan

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need help killing screen blanker gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-26 16:30 +0200
  Re: need help killing screen blanker <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-26 18:50 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-27 16:20 +0200
      Re: need help killing screen blanker <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-27 16:40 +0200
      Re: need help killing screen blanker Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-08-27 20:00 +0200
        Re: need help killing screen blanker <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-27 20:20 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-27 19:00 +0200
  Re: need help killing screen blanker Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-26 19:20 +0200
  Re: need help killing screen blanker Trish Fraser <trish@thefrasers.org> - 2024-08-26 19:30 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-27 19:10 +0200
      Re: need help killing screen blanker Trish Fraser <trish@thefrasers.org> - 2024-08-28 03:40 +0200
  Re: need help killing screen blanker fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2024-08-26 20:10 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-27 19:40 +0200
  Re: need help killing screen blanker "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-08-26 20:30 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-26 21:50 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-27 20:50 +0200
      Re: need help killing screen blanker "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-08-27 21:30 +0200
  Re: need help killing screen blanker David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-08-26 20:40 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker Felix Miata <mrmazda@stanis.net> - 2024-08-26 21:50 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-08-27 21:00 +0200
      Re: need help killing screen blanker David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-08-28 03:10 +0200
        Re: need help killing screen blanker David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-08-31 06:40 +0200
      Re: need help killing screen blanker Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-09-02 05:20 +0200
  Re: need help killing screen blanker "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-08-26 20:50 +0200
    Re: need help killing screen blanker Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-08-27 04:00 +0200

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