Re: CWM + Monitor Shutoff

Thank you for the suggestions, misc. 

xset -dpms did not seem to work

xset s noblank seems to partially work. Instead of my screen going black - it now goes white-greyish

Nonetheless the screen is now covered and whichever applications I was using are no longer visible due to the screen being blanked out Does anyone have further suggestions?

On Tue, 2024-10-01 at 20:05 -0500, izzy Meyer wrote:

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-