How to disable screensaver and monitor suspend

g4j31a5 · 10-13-2006, 03:54 AM

Hi, I'm trying to make the monitor display the current X Windows even if the machine was idling forever. How do I disable screensaver and monitor suspend? Currently if I left my computer for a few minutes, the screensaver started showing up. And a little longer than that, the monitor was suspended and displayed a blank screen until I moved my mouse / pressed a keyboard button.

BTW, my distro is SuSE 10.0 with KDE.

Thanks in advance.

bathory · 10-13-2006, 04:04 AM

You can use:

Code:

xset s off

to turn off these options.

David the H. · 10-13-2006, 04:27 AM

I think you also have to use 'xset -dpms' to turn off the monitor suspension.

You can make this permanent by editing your xorg.conf to remove the dpms line from the monitor section.

g4j31a5 · 10-15-2006, 08:16 PM

Thanks alot guys. I'll try that.

g4j31a5 · 10-18-2006, 11:56 PM

The screen saver worked but the monitor suspension didn't. The monitor still showed a blank screen when I leave it for a while. And there's no line with "DPMS" in the xorg.conf at all.

bathory · 10-19-2006, 01:50 AM

You have to use xset to disable dpms:

Code:

xset -dpms

You can also run:

Code:

xset q

to see your settings.