[mythtv-users] fvwm and dpms

[Chris Palmer]

Kevin Bowen wrote
> I've tried just about everything and I cannot for the life of me 
> figure out how to turn off dpms screen blanking. I'm running myth 
> under fvwm on redhat 9. I tried every method mentioned in the myth 
> docs... I have dpms commented out of my XF86Config, and I have 
> 'xset -dpms' in my fvwm startup script, but still I get screen 
> blanking after ~30 minutes idle. Any ideas?

Hi...

Lots of people keep missing this.  There are 2 parts to it:
- DPMS (Energy Star, turns monitor power off)
- Screen Saver (usually just blanks the screen)

so, you have to give the parameters to control both:

  xset -dpms s off

  xset +dpms s on

if you want to see the values in there, use 'xset q' and
you'll see what all the values are, including if DPMS and
the screensaver are on or off.

-Chris