Screen Power Saving disabling itself

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 22 October 2007, Greg Booth wrote:
> Much as the subject says the Power Saving mode for my monitor keeps
> turning itself off randomly. I haven't been able to pin it down to any
> one event, and I'm not sure where this setting resides on the computer
> otherwise I'd just make a cron job to check / set it every 15 minutes
> or something.

I believe there are some programs (mostly multimedia ) that will turn off the 
monitor PS mode.  Yes, it is irritating and I haven't found which one does it 
either.

And I have a cronjob that does an  "xset +dpms"  but that doesn't always solve 
the problem either.

I usually go to     settings  >>>  peripherals >>> monitor & Display  >>> 
power saving        and toggle/apply  the power saving   box.

If it is already set, turn it off/apply     then turn it on/apply