On Monday 22 June 2020 09:22:47 Felix Miata wrote: > Maybe what works for me would work for you to enable watching a video. > I set all three power save options in desktop settings to 120 minutes. > I have tried that, up to 4000 4025 4050 minutes. Nominally 5 minutes later it powers down, and an xset -q shows: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 450 Suspend: 600 Off: 900 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On And theres not a thing I can do about it. > Something else to try depends on a config file in which to put it, > either in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, > included in Section "Monitor": > > Option "DPMS" "off" > > People using DE's (e.g. TDE) normally don't use cmdline utilities for > controlling X behavior, unless within startup scripts. The only one I > ever use in a startup script is xrandr. Xset has never been my friend. I'm beginning to think of as s klepto shoplifter that deserves shooting myself. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting