screen goes black every ten minutes

andrealombardi · 2012-04-12 22:43:39

screen goes black every ten minutes then comes back moving the mouse but it's still annoying when watching a movie :-).

the version I'm using is slitaz 4.0.

I modified my slim.conf in this way

# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)

# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended

default_path ./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

default_xserver /usr/bin/Xorg

xserver_arguments -dpms

and I also reboot the pc but still the problem remains, could you help me?

thanks

neptune33 · 2012-04-23 00:40:12

What I did was install xset.

Then went to Perferences>Auto Started Applications

click on Configuration.

Add:

#xset

xset s off; xset -dpms &

To the end of the list and save.

The click Exit.

Reboot. (Log out and Log in may work)

This should keep the screen on all the time.

You will need to read up on xset if you want to set a time for the screensaver.

I just use xlock for when I walkaway from the computer.

Hope this helps!

andrealombardi · 2012-04-24 19:44:29

that worked, thanks a lot!

neptune33 · 2012-04-26 02:49:01

Glad it worked for you. If you want to play around with settings. Here's a few pages about xset and dpms.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling

http://linux.die.net/man/1/xset

I wonder if these commands could go in the /etc/rcS.conf file?

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