[ale] Power Management & /etc/default

[Drifter]

Can't generalize, BUT in KDE,

KDE menu > Applications > Settings > Screensaver > Mode > Disable Screen 
saver  AND set Blank After to "0"

Sean

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On Monday, January 16, 2012 10:06:25 pm Nolan Voight wrote:
> Okay, this works, but is not elegant.  Came across the xdg-utils while
> reading, tried:
> xwininfo -int
> (to get the Window ID, then)
> xdg-screensaver suspend [Window ID]
> 
> Made it through a movie without the screen going black. Too specific,
> though--close the browser, open it again, different Window ID. Close
> programs, walk away, desktop blacks out. Anybody know how to
> generalize this? Window Zero doesn't work:
> xdg-screensaver suspend 0
> xdg-screensaver: Window 0 does not exist
> 
> Nor does the wildcard:
> xdg-screensaver suspend *
> xdg-screensaver: Window acpi-support does not exist
> 
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Nolan Voight <nolan.voight at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > So far as I know. Been reading through Gnome/Ubuntu/Mint
> > documentation to see if I'm looking in the wrong places altogether.
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Watson, Keith 
<krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> >> I assumed (bad idea) that you were running X Windows. Are you?
> >> 
> >> 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: 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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