Dear developers and maintainers of Mageia Every now and then I watch a video with Firefox, be it a film or just the news, it will be long enough for my screen to fall black. Then I need to stand up and move the mouse until the display comes up again. That way I do always miss a part of the video. I have looked under xfce4-settings-manager, but my screen saver is disabled. What shall I do?
What is the output of "xset q"?
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Screensavewrs are not the only way to turn displays "black". Check the display settings in xfce4-power-manager and disable the automatically switch-off of display...
Created attachment 13429 [details] output of "xset b" Ohh, thanks a lot. I have not thought about power control/manager. In deed there is a setting under display/screen to turn it black after 10 minutes which can be set to infinite by sliding to the very left (xfce4-settings-manager, Energieverwaltung->Bildschirm).
(In reply to Elmar Stellnberger from comment #3) > Created attachment 13429 [details] > output of "xset b" > > Ohh, thanks a lot. I have not thought about power control/manager. In deed > there is a setting under display/screen to turn it black after 10 minutes > which can be set to infinite by sliding to the very left > (xfce4-settings-manager, Energieverwaltung->Bildschirm). Thanks for the feedback :-) So their wasn't a Mageia bug after all ;-)
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The xset q shows it is the power control with DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 600 Off: 900 Note that with multiple desktop environments installed it's possible to have more than one of them alter the dpms/screensaver settings with background services. It may be necessary to log into each of the installed desktop environments and use it's settings dialog to have them be consistent for dpms/screensaver settings. That way it doesn't matter which one is last to alter the settings during login. An alternative way of doing the same thing is to set up a script to run after starting the desktop ... $ cat bin/noblank #!/bin/bash sleep 60 xset s 0 0 xset s noblank xset s off xset dpms 0 0 0 xset -dpms The sleep at the start is to ensure all desktop environments have finished any changes they make to the settings.