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Re: Disable screen blanking in Fedora8

Re: Disable screen blanking in Fedora8
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:05:56 +020
Ivan Marsh wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:58:46 +0200, J.O. Aho wrote:
> 
>> Ivan Marsh wrote:
>>> I can't for the life of me get screen blanking to turn off in
Fedora 8.
>>>
>>> I'd like to turn it off globally for the whole system but I can't
even
>>> seem to get it to turn off for my session.
>> In /etc/X11/xorg.conf add
>>
>> Section "ServerFlags"
>>          Option      "blank time"    "0"
>>          Option      "standby time"  "0"
>>          Option      "suspend time"  "0"
>>          Option      "off time"      "0"
>>          Option      "dpms"          "false"
>> EndSection
> 
> Hey, this worked... except that I had to remove the dpms line completely.
> Whenever there is a dpms line in my xorg.conf it prevents the screensaver
> from starting at all.
> 

Ok, myself I hate to have screensavers kicking in, so I do everything to 
prevent them.

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