Re: How to stop screen blanking?

Thanks.  I've made the edit.  Now I have to wait until I'm watching a movie to see if worked ;)

 Sincerely yours,
   John B.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:23:32PM +0100, e20100633 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> [email protected] writes:
> 
> > Hello, all,
> >
> >   I'm using off-the-shelf Ubuntu with ratpoison and the screen blanks
> > itself after 10 minutes or so of inactivity.  I don't want this.  How
> > do I stop this?  Whatever the Ubuntu power manager thing is doesn't run
> > when you log in with ratpoison, so almost all advice Ubuntu users give
> > doesn't apply.
> 
> In your ~/.xinitrc :
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> # I don't want the 'blank screen after 30 minutes' thing
> xset -dpms
> xset s 0 0
> xset s off
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- e20100633