Unwanted screen blanking

Riddick · 08-17-2006, 05:46 PM

Dear all,
I have a Toshiba M100 with Slackware 10.2 and KDE 3.5.4.
After a couple of minutes my screen displays a black screen,
although I can still see the cursor - so the screen is not
powered off.

I would like my laptop's display never to be blanked like this
and never to power off.

I have disabled all powersaving in KDE and all screensavers.

What could be causing this?

Thanks,
Riddick

soggycornflake · 08-18-2006, 10:56 AM

Try

Code:

xset s off

Chuck it in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.kde (anywhere before the startkde line, of course) to make it permanent.

edit: To be on the safe side, you might also want:

Code:

xset -dpms

Riddick · 08-18-2006, 07:48 PM

I THINK that solved it! Thanks very much for your help!

Riddick · 08-19-2006, 02:52 PM

errm, well not quite. With a bit more testing the issue seems to have gone until
I lock the screen (which activates the screensaver). Once I unlock the screen,
The behaviour above returns.

Any further ideas?

Riddick

soggycornflake · 08-22-2006, 04:48 PM

Hmm, looks like locking the screen is reactivating screen blanking. I don't know if you can disable that directly, but you could always wrap it in a script, i.e.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
xlock # or whatever app you use to lock the screen
xset -s off
xet -dpms