On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 10:54:15 Christoph Vigano wrote:

On 02/09/2012 10:37 AM, P Nikolic wrote:

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Morning folk

Back to this one again i need to find a working position for "xset -dpms" i am getting sick and tired of every time i reboot i get the darn screens turning off i hate that with vengance if i wqnt them off i turn them off simples

So where can i put the xset command for it to work correctly every time

Thanks

Pete .

Hi Pete,

you could always put settings like these into your $HOME/.xinitrc, that's where I have stored those settings.

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Hi Christoph I have tried in there it just gets ignored i know in the suse world i used to put it there but cant get it to behave on Arch which is a pity because Arch is far better in almost every other way .. Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 16:11:05 gt wrote:

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:59:44AM +0000, P Nikolic wrote:

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On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 10:54:15 Christoph Vigano wrote:

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On 02/09/2012 10:37 AM, P Nikolic wrote:

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So where can i put the xset command for it to work correctly every time

you could always put settings like these into your $HOME/.xinitrc, that's where I have stored those settings.

Hi Christoph

I have tried in there it just gets ignored i know in the suse world i used to put it there but cant get it to behave on Arch which is a pity because Arch is far better in almost every other way ..

How do you login? i.e., which login manager do you use?

i use KDM Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 20:19:06 gt wrote:

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:13:57PM +0000, P Nikolic wrote:

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On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 16:11:05 gt wrote:

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How do you login? i.e., which login manager do you use?

i use KDM

I don't think that kdm uses xinitrc by default. You'll have to make it use xinitrc. It supports xsession i think. Maybe try symlinking ~/.xsession to ~/.xinitrc.

Humm well that dont work either . think the easiest way is going to be get rid of KDM and use startkde or something having looked at kdmrc i dont think i can stick it in there this is becoming a spoiler .. Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 17:22:44 Madeye wrote:

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P Nikolic <p.nikolic1@btinternet.com> wrote:

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On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 20:19:06 gt wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:13:57PM +0000, P Nikolic wrote:

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On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 16:11:05 gt wrote:

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How do you login? i.e., which login manager do you use?

i use KDM

I don't think that kdm uses xinitrc by default. You'll have to make it use xinitrc. It supports xsession i think. Maybe try symlinking ~/.xsession to ~/.xinitrc.

Humm well that dont work either .

think the easiest way is going to be get rid of KDM and use startkde or something having looked at kdmrc i dont think i can stick it in there this is becoming a spoiler ..

Pete .

Have you tried putting it in /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup That should be the way to do it with kdm, at least according to this webpage: http://maketecheasier.com/run-startup-scripts-in-kdm-before-kde-starts/2011/ 12/15

Hi .. I will give it a try see what happens Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 7 08:34:36 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:49:29 +0000 P Nikolic wrote:

Right after a bit of hunting the location is /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup I have added it will see what happens next reboot

If that doesn't work, try an autostart file or cronjob. -- Kc