On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 11:26:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker kicks in, > so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So how do I shut the > screen blanker down for the jobs duration? Building a device to rock the > mouse back and forth at 1 minute intervals seems like a huge waste of > time and metal cutting tools to make it. > > So, how can I kill the blanker for several hours or all day/night if need > be?
In my .xsession I have xset -dpms xset s off xset s noblank It works for me. -- Brian.