Screen blanks after 60 seconds
Anita Lewis
ajlewis2 at highstream.net
Sat Aug 26 13:28:02 UTC 2006
On 08/26/2006 09:07 AM Tez wrote:
> If I don't press a key or move the mouse the screen blanks after a
> minute, this is annoying when watching a movie or reading a website or
> man page...
>
> The screen saver isn't set to start automatically and powers saving is
> set to 30 mins.
> The monitor doesn't go in to standby, it just blanks.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Tez
>
> --
> Kubuntu 6.06 [Dapper] (Fully up to date)
> Intel 82845G graphics integrated chip
>
>
I doubt that this is the case, but in the xorg.conf file where BlankTime
option is set for less than the default 10 min. Even so, I don't find my
monitor blanking in 10 minutes during a movie.
Maybe in Control Appearance and Themes/Screensaver, it is set for a
blank screensaver and the time is short? You could try making it longer.
I use gxine for movies. I haven't tried other things to know how well
they handle screensavers. It does sound like it isn't really the
screensaver that is doing this, but I don't know what it would be.
Anita
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