Re: [opensuse] Keeping the monitor turned on
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Subject: Re: [opensuse] Keeping the monitor turned on
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:00:26 -0700
From: Marc Chamberlin
On Wednesday March 31 2010, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - This may be more appropriate to the KDE group but seems like this is a better place to ask as this may be a system level issue... Running SuSE11.2 with KDE 4.4.2
I want the ability to leave my monitor up with the display turned on indefinitely, for my media center, especially when I am playing music and running a visualization program. ...
Marc..
I can only tell you how I do it on 11.1 with KDE 3.5, but there the power management widget in the system tray (the icon is a U.S.-style two-prong electrical power plug) that allows you to define new themes. I added one that disables DPMS (display power management system). I select this theme when playing long Flash videos, e.g. (And then forget to turn it off afterward...)
Better video players and other passively viewed graphics programs will change this for you, though if they crash then you're still left having to manually re-enable DPMS.
Randall Schulz
Thanks Randall, I found the widget you were referring to and added it to my task bar... Seems more apropos for systems with batteries but appears to be suitable for a desktop also... Added in the new theme but I had tried to turn off the DPMS for the Performance theme and that did not work... I will experiment with my new theme and see if it makes a difference, again with all options turned off so as to leave the screen display running forever... I also have another idea... James suggestion to use the two xset commands worked! So with my new theme I will also set up a script to execute these two commands also and see if the combo of switching to my new theme and having that script automagically executed does the trick... Marc..
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2010-03-31 at 15:05 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
I also have another idea... James suggestion to use the two xset commands worked! So with my new theme I will also set up a script to execute these two commands also and see if the combo of switching to my new theme and having that script automagically executed does the trick...
There are other tricks. Some video players, like xine, can fake keypresses periodically so that the screensaver does not kick in. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuzzz8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VunQCeNYWdSpMxbsVHZ0HK0pSKglx9 rVgAoIyPncWTotw9vUfS7Jw5jBnE2o2X =x2Ne -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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