stopping blank screen in Etch Gnome core

knobby67 · 02-05-2008, 09:38 AM

Hi I'm running Gnome core on etch and need to stop the screen going blank. Core has no interface so I'm unsure if it's going into powersave gnome screen saver or x screen saver. Can anyone advise how to stop the blanking or what file I need to install to stop it. Thanks

mrrangerman · 02-05-2008, 05:20 PM

If your wanting to disable the DPMS use the xset command. To learn more about it type man xset

To disable the DPMS in a terminal type xset -dpms to enable it the command would be xset +dpms

Edit: If you want to disable it all together edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, the monitor section and comment out the DPMS Option with a # sign.