On Monday 22 June 2020 12:50:51 William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2020 07:11:52 Michael wrote: > > On Monday 22 June 2020 08:35:19 am Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 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" > > > > Longshot, but try creating a new user? That'd at least isolate if > > it's a config file or a system issue? > > > > Best, > > Michael > > There's a tiny blue rectangle (almost a square) in the system tray. Not there. > Right-click, look for "configure displays", then go to the tab > labelled "power management": unclick the box that says "enable DPMS > power save modes"; or you can configure power saving to something that > suits you better. > > (For a desktop I find that power saving is useless or even > counterproductive, so I just switch off the monitor instead when not > in use. On a laptop, or in a setting where one wants the screen to > lock when unattended, this is a different matter, but I imagine it's > just Gene hanging out at home.) Keyrect. With the missus in the shop, end stage COPD, I don't have a cat to walk on keys. Just me. > > Also, VLC allows turning off power saving while actively watching a > video; I don't know, but I imagine other media players do something > similar. > > Bill > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>