On Monday 22 June 2020 10:33:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2020 12:50:51 William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > On Monday 22 June 2020 07:11:52 Michael wrote: > > > On Monday 22 June 2020 08:35:19 am Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > 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" > > > > > > Longshot, but try creating a new user? That'd at least isolate if > > > it's a config file or a system issue? > > > > > > Best, > > > Michael > > > > There's a tiny blue rectangle (almost a square) in the system tray. > > Not there. I had to look up the name, because I've just had it sitting there for years; once configured, I usually don't touch stuff. So it's called the "Resize and Rotate System Tray App". (See attachment for screenshot.) I clicked on help or about to find out the name. Maybe you need to install it, or just find it. I forget how it is that it found a home in my system tray, but it's a KDE3/TDE app. I *believe* that it may be part of another package, perhaps tdepowersave-trinity? In any case, I ran "apt-cache search" with the terms "tray", "power", "resize" and "rotate", and that is the only TDE app that seemed to fit all the search terms. Bill > > > Right-click, look for "configure displays", then go to the tab > > labelled "power management": unclick the box that says "enable DPMS > > power save modes"; or you can configure power saving to something that > > suits you better. > > > > (For a desktop I find that power saving is useless or even > > counterproductive, so I just switch off the monitor instead when not > > in use. On a laptop, or in a setting where one wants the screen to > > lock when unattended, this is a different matter, but I imagine it's > > just Gene hanging out at home.) > > Keyrect. With the missus in the shop, end stage COPD, I don't have a cat > to walk on keys. Just me. > > > Also, VLC allows turning off power saving while actively watching a > > video; I don't know, but I imagine other media players do something > > similar. > > > > Bill > > > >
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