On Monday 22 June 2020 09:22:47 Felix Miata wrote:

> Maybe what works for me would work for you to enable watching a video.
> I set all three power save options in desktop settings to 120 minutes.
>
I have tried that, up to 4000 4025 4050 minutes. Nominally 5 minutes 
later it powers down, and an xset -q shows:
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 450    Suspend: 600    Off: 900
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On
And theres not a thing I can do about it.

> Something else to try depends on a config file in which to put it,
> either in /etc/X11/xorg.conf or a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/,
> included in Section "Monitor":
>
> 		Option	"DPMS"	"off"
>
> People using DE's (e.g. TDE) normally don't use cmdline utilities for
> controlling X behavior, unless within startup scripts. The only one I
> ever use in a startup script is xrandr. Xset has never been my friend.

I'm beginning to think of as s klepto shoplifter that deserves shooting 
myself.

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