Louis E Garcia II <louisg00@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:02 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:45 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
>> > I noticed that the backlight on my laptop will turn off in 20 min of
>> > inactivity. How do I change this to 10 min? I fiddled with
>> > gnome-power-manager but didn't help. Is this an X setting?
>> >
>> > -Louis
>>
>> It's part of xscreensaver, if that's installed. Don't know about
>> gnome-screensaver (sp?).
>
> gnome-screensaver has nothing for dpms, not even in gconf. xscreensaver
> is not installed. Would it be hard coded in X?
You can adjust it in xorg.conf or with xset(1). The option lines
below do the magic. For CRT monitors I like to stagger the times a
bit to minimize thermal cycling damage. blank/standby/suspend/off get
set to 10/11/12/13 minutes. For laptop LCD's it hardly matters. I
just turn the sucker off in one go and with a shorter timeout.
>From my fc5 xorg.conf file:
Section "ServerLayout"
# Identifier "Default Layout"
Identifier "ancho, ATI Radeon-200M,builtin WXGA LCD"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "AlwaysCore"
# added these next 4 -wsr
# LCD monitors seem to only have two modes, on/off
# don't bother going through all the intermediate modes.
Option "blank time" "5" # 5 minutes
Option "standby time" "0" # disable
Option "suspend time" "0" # disable
Option "off time" "5" # same as blank time.
EndSection
-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
