Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:48, Lon Gilbert wrote:
This may be an old question but it's new to me. My screen is blanking
after about 3 minutes of the banner screen saver. I have tried running
setterm -blank 0 but that doesn't seem to work. What does?

This seems like a power management issue to me.

(Assuming KDE 3.4, menus may be differently named in other versions:)
Right click your desktop and select Properties. Go to the Display module and
to the Power Control tab. There you can select the values that you want.

Martijn Klingens wrote:
Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:48, Lon Gilbert wrote:
>This may be an old question but it's new to me. My screen is blanking
>after about 3 minutes of the banner screen saver. I have tried running
>setterm -blank 0 but that doesn't seem to work. What does?
>
>This seems like a power management issue to me.
>
>(Assuming KDE 3.4, menus may be differently named in other versions:)
>Right click your desktop and select Properties. Go to the Display module
and to the Power Control tab. There you can select the values that you
want.

If it is, this shortcut will turn it off:
xset -dpms

It won't turn off permanently, as it is turned back on by the X server
when restarting and by the KDE module. But it will help you find out if
this is the case.

xset q will also give you some information:
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 300 Suspend: 1200 : 1800
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is

If any of the times is 180s (3 minutes), you've found your culprit.

Just in case all of the other Power Management stuff refuses to work -
I spent ages trying to get the screensaver to work on Fedora.

You need to disable the screensaver by setting Enabled=false in
$

And then run xscreensaver-demo to select your screensaver. It is
documented somewhere maybe somewhere in KDE faq. (KDE has its own
screensaver control xscreensaver).

8/16/05, Thiago Macieira <thiago (AT) kde (DOT) orgwrote:
Martijn Klingens wrote:
Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:48, Lon Gilbert wrote:
>This may be an old question but it's new to me. My screen is blanking
>after about 3 minutes of the banner screen saver. I have tried running
>setterm -blank 0 but that doesn't seem to work. What does?
>
>This seems like a power management issue to me.
>
>(Assuming KDE 3.4, menus may be differently named in other versions:)
>Right click your desktop and select Properties. Go to the Display module
and to the Power Control tab. There you can select the values that you
want.

If it is, this shortcut will turn it off:
xset -dpms

It won't turn off permanently, as it is turned back on by the X server
when restarting and by the KDE module. But it will help you find out if
this is the case.

xset q will also give you some information:
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 300 Suspend: 1200 : 1800
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is

If any of the times is 180s (3 minutes), you've found your culprit.