[ale] Power Management & /etc/default

[Nolan Voight]

Thank you, Keith. I restored everything to default, then tried your
suggestions, but that didn't do it. Anywhere in the logs that might
tell me where this is getting called from?

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Watson, Keith <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Open a shell and type the following
>
> xset s off
> xset -dpms
>
>
> If you want to make the settings permanent edit the following file:
>
>   /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>
> and place the flowing lines before # invoke global X session script
>
> # turn off screen blanking and monitor energy star features
> /usr/bin/xset s off
> /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>
>
> keith
>
> --
>
> Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Nolan
>> Voight
>> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 13:12
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: [ale] Power Management & /etc/default
>>
>> I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint last month, for the usual reason.
>> I'm running it on a PC, and am having the dickens of a time trying to
>> figure out how to keep it from going into Standby or Suspend long
>> enough for me to watch a doggone movie. The dconf Editor doesn't seem
>> to pay any mind to the values I've increased in what seemed the likely
>> places in org-gnome-settings-daemon-plugins-power. Maybe I should try
>> 0 instead of large numbers--would that mean False, or would that throw
>> it into suspend immediately?
>>
>> Reading this page:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement
>> makes me wonder if I should try editing /etc/default/acpi-support, but
>> reading that file, the lines which would help are in the Legacy
>> (deprecated) section. I've called up the man page for pm-hibernate,
>> but have no idea where I would control that. Any suggestions?
>> Something real obvious I've missed?
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