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chomwitt

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From: Hellas

Registered: 2014-09-12

Posts: 33

Controlling DPMS from GUI settings.

In 'Power Manager' settings there is 'Power Manager/Display power management '  (let callit PM-DPM)
In Screensaver Preferences / Advanced  there is also 'Display power management' ( SS-DPM)

I try to understand what each dialog controls.
If i got it right,  PM-DPM (as the hint says) it wont control the DPM, but allows you to choose between two ways to do that .
So PM-DPM seems to be the choice (PM controlled DPMS | X11 controlled DPMS).
If that is the case i think that dialog element's name should change.

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Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Controlling DPMS from GUI settings.

Which screensaver are you using that has dpms settings? Have you tried xfce4-screensaver? It is more integrated with Xfce and doesn't have any dpms settings - it leaves it to the power manger to handle.

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chomwitt

Member

From: Hellas

Registered: 2014-09-12

Posts: 33

Re: Controlling DPMS from GUI settings.

Good morning. I am searching it. There is no xfce4-screensaver package in my distro.

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Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: Controlling DPMS from GUI settings.

There is: https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … r=4.16.0-1

Last edited by KBar (2022-02-18 07:20:40)

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