Screensaver settings aren't used after startup

[Daryl Haataja]

I've tried searching and decided to skip it. My chief suspect is
EnergyStar related conformity. I'm running 10.04 and have to run a
little script every reboot or resume to disable EnergyStar or my
screen goes blank after some minutes. Disabling my touchpad also works
into the lot. The script I run in 10.04 is:

#!/bin/sh

xset -dpms # Energy Star off (doh)

synclient touchpadoff=1 # Touchpad off (duh)

I haven't found how to make this permanent and gave up trying in 2011.


On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> if I disable the screensaver for Xfce4 or wish to start it in 240
> minutes, instead of the 10 minutes default, by xfce4-settings-manager >
> Screensaver, it only works for the current session. After a new startup
> the new settings are ignored. For the GUI the settings will be kept at
> "disabled" or "240 minutes", but I get a black screen after some
> minutes.
> Unfortunately the screensaver is active, if I watch videos.
>
> At the moment "Blank" and "Cycle After" are set to 240 minutes, display
> power management is disabled for my Ubuntu Studio 12.04 LTS (Precise)
> x86_64, this is the output of
> $ xset -q
> [snip]
> Screen Saver:
>  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
>  timeout:  0    cycle:  0
> Colors:
>  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
> Font Path:
>  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,built-ins
> DPMS (Energy Star):
>  Standby: 7200    Suspend: 7200    Off: 14400
>  DPMS is Disabled
>
> For "Application Autostart" the "Xfce Settings Helper" was disabled. I
> enabled it right now, but can't reboot yet. Even if this should do the
> trick, I wonder why the screen gets black after some minutes, when the
> settings are "disabled" or "240 minutes".
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
> --
> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list
> Ubuntu-Studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users