On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:12:33 -0400
David Anthony <dma@silentsystems.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Despite my best efforts - CWM always makes my monitor shutoff after a
> few minutes. I'm not talking about screensaver, sleep or hibernate -
> rather the monitor is entirely black but appears "on". Moving the
> mouse resumes the display.
>
> Does anyone know how I might stop this?
That's automatic display power management. Comes default with how
Xenocara is configured, regardless of window manager. Its trivial to
tweak that behaviour though.
Run $ xset -dpms to disable it temporarily, and $ xset +dpms to
re-enable it.
It could also be worthwhile to do $ xset s noblank to disable
screen blanking. To flop screen blanking back on, $ xset s blank.
You can probably configure your .xsession file to run that, or perhaps
hack together a toggleable bind for CWM. I'm not a CWM user, so IDK
the specifics on what that could look like. Best of luck to you.
This xset stuff *should* be applicable on all X11 sessions that
don't implement some sort of their own power management system, as well.
Read more about it in the xset(1) manpage:
$ man 1 xset
Peace-
--
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> there are too many uninteresting things
> that go unnoticed.
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