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I have a very silly question... When I am watching a streaming video after about 10 minutes my monitor goes black and I have to wiggle the mouse to get the screen to turn back on. I can't seem to find a way to change the settings for this. Is there a command or a gui-tool that can help me change the time it takes for the monitor to turn off? Thanks!

If you use KDE go to System Settings -> Power Management (Under Hardware) -> Energy Saving Settings and depending on what you want, either untick the Screen Energy Saving checkbox to disable it completely or just increase the switch off time. Then click Apply.

Edit: above is on Cauldron. On Mageia 1 KDE 4.6 the setting is still there, just in a different location in Power Management (I think).

Thanks for your reply. I use Fluxbox as my window manager (and sometimes Gnome2), but I found some power options in the gnome-control-center and changed them. It seems so far that my selection there remains even under fluxbox; I will have to test this further to be certain.

Make sure that you disable DPMS settings for your monitor (check xset man-page) and maybe check if you media player supports disabling power management stuff.

doktor5000 wrote:Make sure that you disable DPMS settings for your monitor (check xset man-page) and maybe check if you media player supports disabling power management stuff.

Danka, Doktor!

It happens when I am streaming video from the web on firefox. I think its a fluxbox issue because xset -dpms doesn't seem to help. The gnome-power-management seems to be effective, but I have to start it manually in fluxbox. Maybe there is a fluxbox tool that I'm not aware of, but in the meantime I think I can get by this way.

I'll post more info when I find a better solution(one that doesn't rely on a different window manager).

I had this problem too, and after a quick web search I found this exact page that answeres my question.
"Mageia display powersave"
Great job, thank you.

Glenn

GlennsPref wrote:I had this problem too, and after a quick web search I found this exact page that answeres my question.
"Mageia display powersave"
Great job, thank you.

Glenn

Glad you found a solution! I recently tried the following with great success:

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xset dpms 2800 2800 2800

Which sets the screen blank time, suspend, and off time to 2800 seconds (roughly 45 minutes).

Hmm, I found that hashing out the DPMS in /etc/X11/xorg.conf , the second monitor would not display.

So far, I have just used this

If you use KDE go to System Settings -> Power Management (Under Hardware) -> Energy Saving Settings and depending on what you want, either untick the Screen Energy Saving checkbox to disable it completely or just increase the switch off time. Then click Apply.

and it seems to be working without any other probs..

Cheers, Glenn

Well, just use whatever works best for you

FWIW, keep in mind, using xset is only temporary for the current session, editing xorg.conf is permanent change.