After poking around, it turns out you just need to add an environmental variable XAUTHORITY in XFCE terminal. 'export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority' Add it to $HOME/.xsession to make it permanent.
> Maybe the issue is running it in XFCE from an xfce4-terminal. On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:22 AM Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2024-03-09, ofthecentury <[email protected]> wrote: > > For the droves who have/will have the same question: > > You can disable DPMS by tweaking the Xorg config > > out. First, get the monitor identifier from your > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Then, add a dpms.conf file to > > /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with this: > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "LVDS0" [insert your monitor identifier] > > Option "DPMS" "false" > > EndSection > > Kill xenodm and launch xenodm again. > > Confirm by running 'xset q' that DPMS is disabled. > > Laptop screen will not shut off on you again. > > "xset -dpms" and "xset s off" work fine for me.. > >
