Hello, I am new to the forums...

I have made a script called
dpmsoff

these are the contents

#!/bin/bash
xset dpms 0 0 0


I set the file to executable with this command

chmod +x dpmsoff

when I log in it does not pop up a text editor

but when I pull up xset -q to check it
it still is set with numbers on the dpms instead of
nulling it out...

Anyone have an idea what I may be doing wrong..
I am placing this file in my .kde/Autostart dir
Also I should mention if I run it like this
bash dpmsoff
it works...

Thanks for any help.

Hmm. It looks like it should work to me. I have a similar script in my Autostart folder and it works just fine. But I simply use 'xset -dpms' to disable dpms entirely. Is that what you're trying to do?

well, I just decided to use kpowersave since inside the configuration you can set profiles to be 0 0 0 on the dpms which accomplished what I was trying to do...
I would still like to see a sample of how you disabled dpms in a script and which location you placed it...also include the filename so I will know how to name it and I am assuming you are making it executable?
Please reply...Thanks

It's no different than yours, really. I just put that command, and a couple of others, in a bash script and made it executable, then placed it in .kde/Autostart.

'xset -dpms' disables the dpms settings.
'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' runs the Xmodmap file that configures my multimedia buttons. There are probably better ways to run this, but this is the easiest for me.
'xhost +localhost' is to let root connect with the xserver for running gui apps. I use it for a script I wrote that has a pop-up information dialog.

As you can see, there's nothing special there. I see nothing to help shed light on your trouble, except, now that I think about it, that perhaps it uses the .sh extension on the file name to recognize it as a script. I've noticed konqueror recognizes file associations primarily by extension, so perhaps it's the same here. Might be worth a try.