[ale] Power Management & /etc/default

[Watson, Keith]

I assumed (bad idea) that you were running X Windows. Are you?

keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
IT Support professional Lead           College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Nolan
> Voight
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 18:45
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Power Management & /etc/default
> 
> 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
> > keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> > (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
> >
> >
> >> -----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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