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iuomo

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Registered: 2013-12-07

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Screen goes blank [solved]

I am running xfce4 on multiple debian 9 installations.

I have a tower that I have purged xfce4-power-manager in hopes the system will not sleep.
I have 3 computers connected to one monitor and when I leave the xfce4 deb9 machine the monitor moved to another os due to monitor inactivity.

What can I do to keep the video active when I leave for a few minutes.

screen saver?

bois?

Thanks

Last edited by iuomo (2017-10-11 12:41:21)

sixsixfive

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Re: Screen goes blank [solved]

you could enable the presentation mode in the power manger or you could disable dpms (xset -dpms)

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MountainDewManiac

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Re: Screen goes blank [solved]

I have a tower that I have purged xfce4-power-manager in hopes the system will not sleep.

Couldn't you just move all the display (et cetera) sliders all the way to the left, to the "Never" position? That's what I did a few years ago when I wanted to keep the display on at all times.

I have 3 computers connected to one monitor and when I leave the xfce4 deb9 machine the monitor moved to another os due to monitor inactivity.

Looks like you'd want to reconfigure your multiple monitor facilitating device (whether it be software or hardware), then.

What can I do to keep the video active when I leave for a few minutes.

screen saver?

When I wanted to keep the display active, I picked XScreenSaver's "Disable Screen Saver" mode from the drop-down list. But I don't know if that is still an option in the newest versions of this application or, indeed, whether you are even running this one as your screensaver app.

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iuomo

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Re: Screen goes blank [solved]

Solved:
- re-installed xfce4-power-manager
- configured xfce4-power-manager and turned everything off
- configured Monitor power settings.

All is good and thanks for the posts.