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IpreferXfce

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Registered: 2016-02-25

Posts: 71

Screen Saver Misbehaving

I'm running PCLinuxOS.  They are a rolling distro, therefor I think we are always running the latest XFCE.  The XFCE4-screensaver stopped working.  When I looked at the settings, it appeared that it should work and yet it wasn't working anymore.  Finally decided to uninstall it and replace it with xscreensaver.  I decided that I wanted the monitor to be on all the time.  I disabled the xscreensaver, and yet the OS turns the screen blank.  It isn't powering down.  It is just turning the screen blank.  I checked the power settings, I have it set to "Blank After" never.

I want to stop the screen from going blank.  When I re activate xscreensaver, I want it to work too.  Is there some other setting I don't know about?

CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

Posts: 305

Re: Screen Saver Misbehaving

  I decided that I wanted the monitor to be on all the time.

$ xset s 0 0 & xset dpms 0 0 0

IpreferXfce

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Registered: 2016-02-25

Posts: 71

Re: Screen Saver Misbehaving

  I decided that I wanted the monitor to be on all the time.

$ xset s 0 0 & xset dpms 0 0 0

I tried the code as a normal user.  Then I tried it under root.  Each time I did a full reboot.  This IS NOT what is wrong because it doesn't resolve the issue.

Here is the output:

[family@localhost ~]$ xset s 0 0 & xset dpms 0 0 0
[1] 21775
[1]+  Done                    xset s 0 0

[root@localhost family]# xset s 0 0 & xset dpms 0 0 0
[1] 22024
[1]+  Done                    xset s 0 0

Most of the time I post my system specs.  Since the advice didn't work, and just in case there is a clue in system specs:

System:    Kernel: 5.13.5-pclos1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: PCLinuxOS 2021 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: MapleTronics product: DG965OT v: VIIV serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Intel model: DG965OT v: AAD63733-205 serial: <filter> BIOS: Intel 
           v: MQ96510J.86A.1754.2008.1117.0002 date: 11/17/2008 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 6400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom rev: 2 cache: L2: 2 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 8524 
           Speed: 1598 MHz min/max: 1596/2128 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1598 2: 1598 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 82G965 Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel,v4l resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965G (BW) v: 2.1 Mesa 21.1.5 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 82801H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.5-pclos1 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no 
           Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.18 running: no 
           Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
Network:   Device-1: Intel 82566DC Gigabit Network driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 20e0 bus-ID: 00:19.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
RAID:      Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:1f.2 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 470.99 GiB used: 132.75 GiB (28.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: PNY model: CS900 240GB SSD size: 223.57 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Hitachi model: HDP725025GLA380 size: 232.83 GiB 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Glide size: 14.59 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 49.2 GiB used: 14.37 GiB (29.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /home size: 165.56 GiB used: 16.5 GiB (10.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 202 Uptime: 38m Memory: 3.77 GiB used: 1.16 GiB (30.8%) Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
           gcc: 10.3.0 Packages: 1982 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 inxi: 3.3.04 

Version of XFCE is 4.16.0

Version of the Power Manager is:  4.16.0-1pclos2021