Hi devs, I am a bit confused by the behavior of e with regard to setting screen saver and dpms.
TLDR; My question: is it possible to disable screensaver and enable only dpms? Long version: ------------- IIRC, there used to be a separate screen saver setting, but it is missing nowadays. The current behavior I get is the following: 1. Default: screensaver and dpms are both enabled. ~» xset q | grep -wE '(Screen Saver|DPMS)' -A3 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 300 cycle: 0 Colors: -- DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 305 Suspend: 306 Off: 307 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On 2. Disable "Enable Screen Blanking" and it turns off both screen saver and dpms: ~» xset q | grep -wE '(Screen Saver|DPMS)' -A3 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: -- DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 305 Suspend: 306 Off: 307 DPMS is Disabled 3. In X, it is possible to set them off separately. ~» xset s off ~» xset q | grep -wE '(Screen Saver|DPMS)' -A3 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: -- DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 305 Suspend: 306 Off: 307 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On I have noticed that it makes a difference if I am playing some video via VLC: 3a. If I have screen saver off, then the screen does not go blank. 3b. If I do not disable screen saver, then the screen goes blank after 5min irrespective of whether dpms is set or not. This is very troublesome, especially if I display a playing video or movie over hdmi. There is a huge amount of static in audio while the display goes off. Thanks for any clarification. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
