Ubuntu power management question

[Neil Woolford]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 05:42 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 19:14 -0400, Marc wrote:
> > ...Newbie here to Ubuntu and Linux. Learning a little bit everyday... 
> > ...I would like to stop the monitor from going into standby mode. 
> 
> - Go to System->Preferences->Screensaver
> - Click on the "Advanced" tab.
> - look in the top right of the window, there is a "Power Management"
> section. There, you can finely tune what you want, or even disable power
> management altogether, if you want.
> Vince
> 
Vince is dead right, and that is the answer to your query.  As you are a
self-confessed newbie, there is a subtlety that you may not have met
yet, which turns up quite often in Linux systems.

You can set times for the various blanking and shutdown options;  what
isn't immediately obvious is that if you set a time of '0' (zero) then
the option never takes effect.  (You might expect it to happen after no
time, or at once...)

Think of it in binary arithmetic notation as used by programmers;  0
(zero) is used to symbolise off, deactivated, false:  1 (one) - or often
any non-zero value - means on, activated, true.

I can't guarantee that this works for all controls, but it is quite
common...

Neil