Showing posts with label screen blanking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label screen blanking. Show all posts

19 January 2016

627. Very briefly: Turn off screen blanking in GNOME/debian jessie

Update:
The only thing that worked for turning off screen-blanking when using youtube or vlc was an ugly little hack:
I installed xdotool and ran crontab -e and added:
*/2 * * * * DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/home/andy/.Xauthority xdotool key Ctrl


Original post
In spite of not having any screen saver activate and in spite of setting "Blank Screen" to "Never' under Power options, my screen kept on blanking out after 1-3 minutes of watching TV using mythtv. I tried a lot of things, including using xset, but the only thing that worked in the end was editing my /etc/X11/xorg.conf (I use an nvidia driver) and adding the bits in red:
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
    Screen      2  "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "BlankTime" "0"
    Option "StandbyTime" "0"
    Option "SuspendTime" "0"
    Option "OffTime" "0"
    Option "DPMS" "0"
EndSection
Now the screen never blanks when watching TV using mythtv. On the other hand, it still blanks when watching DVDs in VLC...