[xubuntu-users] xfce4-power-manager

[Steven Rosenberg]

I forgot to say that the way to do this in Xfce is to add this script
to your startup applications in Xfce, and just let it run every
session.
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Steven Rosenberg
http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog
http://blogs.dailynews.com/click
stevenhrosenberg at gmail.com
steven at stevenrosenberg.net


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Steven Rosenberg
<stevenhrosenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I used to have this bug in Debian Wheezy with Xfce, and there is a way
> to solve it.
>
> The key was using xset, but there is some unknown (to me) startup
> script that changes the xset settings after boot and before the
> desktop is done being prepared.
>
> My solution was to use a Bash script at startup but to put a delay in
> the script so the xset settings I needed were made after that unknown
> startup script did its thing.
>
> Here is the blog post I wrote on the problem:
> http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/desktops/Xfce/2013_0109_xfce_screenblanking_fix
>
> And here is my script (which has a whole lot of comments):
>
> #! /bin/bash
> #
> # The purpose of this one-line script is to use the xset
> # utility to turn off screen blanking on my Debian Wheezy
> # desktop under Xfce 4.8.
> #
> # This script is not needed in GNOME 3 but is helpful in Xfce
> #
> # The sleep command pauses the script for 200 seconds
> # so it can be used in the Xfce Session and Startup utility
> # without the xset parameters being reset by other login scripts
> # that load afterward.
> #
> # Monitor DPMS power-saving features are set to 0 -- turned off --
> # so xscreensaver can manage the display instead
> #
> sleep 200
> xset dpms 0 0 0
> exit 0
>
> --
> Steven Rosenberg
> http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog
> http://blogs.dailynews.com/click
> stevenhrosenberg at gmail.com
> steven at stevenrosenberg.net
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Federico Leoni <effelle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's nice to see you around here Ali.
>> I'm still out of the country but when I'll back I'll have a closer look on
>> this bug.
>>
>> F.
>>
>>
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