| Dresk | Ever since I upgraded to the latest LTS in Lubuntu (24.x), Xorg has been setting DPMS for turning off my screens at only 10 minutes idle. I use xset -dpms, check that it is disabled with xset q, but ultimately it just comes back in a matter of minutes. I ideally want to use Lubuntu's Idle Watcher, which is set to 30 minutes, so I doubt it's kicking DPMS in Xorg back on. Anyone have an idea why updating from 22 LTS to 24 LTS | 15:19 |
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| Dresk | might start telling Xorg to use DPMS, and re-enable it even if I manually disable it? | 15:19 |
| eyeoh | Dresk: do you have settings in config files like .xprofile? | 15:58 |
| eyeoh | .xprofile .xinitrc or .profile etc - the ones in your ~ | 15:58 |
| eyeoh | for example, I have set in my .xprofile: xset dpms 900 900 900 and xset s 900 900 | 15:58 |
| Dresk | I don't have any of those files in my home directory | 15:59 |
| eyeoh | and what does xset q actually report? | 15:59 |
| Dresk | DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling): | 15:59 |
| Dresk | Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600 | 15:59 |
| Dresk | DPMS is Disabled | 15:59 |
| Dresk | But it's gonna turn back on real soon | 16:00 |
| eyeoh | how soon is real soon? | 16:00 |
| eyeoh | that's set to 10 minutes. did you want 30? | 16:01 |
| Dresk | Within 10 minutes | 16:01 |
| eyeoh | I think a ~/.xprofile is the simplest way out of multiple options. | 16:01 |
| Dresk | I don't want to use Xorg DPMS for monitor management, I want to use Lubuntu's Power Management program | 16:01 |
| eyeoh | hmm maybe check that there isn't another config overriding it then | 16:02 |
| eyeoh | in say, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and stuff | 16:02 |
| eyeoh | xset commands won't persist, so it's probably being set in a config somewhere | 16:02 |
| Dresk | I'm checking around these files | 16:04 |
| Dresk | I guess I could use DPMS if I had to, I'd set it to 30 minutes and hopefully it wouldn't reset | 16:04 |
| eyeoh | setterm is mentioned here but I don't know what/where it is https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_Power_Management_Signaling | 16:05 |
| eyeoh | I think the quickest fix/workaround is to just use .xprofile | 16:05 |
| eyeoh | so values of 1800 | 16:05 |
| Dresk | What's xset s? | 16:06 |
| eyeoh | I always forget. screensaver? | 16:06 |
| eyeoh | maybe it's redundant and dpms is enough | 16:06 |
| eyeoh | I think I just mindlessly set both s and dpms to be the same even though s is probably not necessary | 16:08 |
| Dresk | So I create an .xprofile in my home directory and add that line and it should work? | 16:09 |
| eyeoh | you might need to reboot or restart the session | 16:09 |
| eyeoh | but I'm pretty sure it should work - and xset q should show the new values of 1800 | 16:09 |
| Dresk | Well we'll see what happens | 16:13 |
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