[arch-general] DPMS

P Nikolic

9 Feb 2012 9 Feb '12

9:37 a.m.

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 . -- 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

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Christoph Vigano

9 Feb 9 Feb

9:54 a.m.

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. -- Christoph AUR, IRC: kritztopf BBS, Github: kritter

P Nikolic

9:59 a.m.

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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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.

-- Christoph AUR, IRC: kritztopf BBS, Github: kritter

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

gt

10:41 a.m.

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? -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

P Nikolic

2:13 p.m.

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

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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

gt

2:49 p.m.

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. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

P Nikolic

3:46 p.m.

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 . -- 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

Madeye

4:22 p.m.

On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:46:52 +0000 P Nikolic 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/... -- \Madeye - The box said to install Windows 95 or better, so I installed ARCH Linux! ---------------------------------------------------------- - Registered Linux user #167944 since 2000-02-28 (｡◕‿◕｡) - ---------------------------------------------------------- - Jabber: @@ madeye at jabber dot org @@ - ----------------------------------------------------------

P Nikolic

7:04 p.m.

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

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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:46:52 +0000

P Nikolic 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

P Nikolic

8:49 p.m.

On Thursday 09 Feb 2012 19:04:24 P Nikolic wrote:

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

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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:46:52 +0000

P Nikolic 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/201 1/ 12/15

Hi ..

I will give it a try see what happens

Pete .

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

Kevin Chadwick

10:15 p.m.

New subject: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: DPMS

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

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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

Lennart Andersen

2:15 p.m.

* P Nikolic [2012-02-09 09:37+0000]

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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 .

-- 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

Hi Pete, I think you could use the .xinitrc for this.... .xinitrc xset s off xset -dpms Lennart --

Lennart Andersen

2:21 p.m.

* P Nikolic [2012-02-09 09:37+0000]

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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 .

-- 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

I did not see the other email.... If the .xinitrc does not work.....try the rc.local. Len --

Sander Jansen

2:25 p.m.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:37 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

You can set defaults in xorg.conf. See man xorg.conf Sander

Damjan

11 Feb 11 Feb

7:36 p.m.

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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

/etc/rc.local is *NOT* started in the X session so it can not set X parameters cron also doesn't start the jobs in the X session ~/.xinitrc is only started when running startx ~/.xsession is unfortunately not run by most login managers What you need is ~/.xprofile which is *sourced* by most login managers before running your *DE session. That's also a place to export some variables that are inherited in all your *DE applications. -- дамјан

P Nikolic

8:44 p.m.

On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 20:36:56 Damjan 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

/etc/rc.local is *NOT* started in the X session so it can not set X parameters cron also doesn't start the jobs in the X session

~/.xinitrc is only started when running startx ~/.xsession is unfortunately not run by most login managers

What you need is ~/.xprofile which is *sourced* by most login managers before running your *DE session. That's also a place to export some variables that are inherited in all your *DE applications.

Ok i have not had to restart the system yet so it is still on the manual xset command 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

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