DPMS Turns Itself On

[Zeikcied]

With the update yesterday (or the day before?) of xsettings-kde my display began blanking after a few seconds.

xset dpms 0 0 0

stopped the blanking. I put that command into ~/.bash_profile

I think the update had to have been a couple days ago. Using xset -dpms isn't effective anymore. I hope your method works.

But like Snowhog, I don't have a ~/.bash_profile file. I do have ~/.profile, though.

[Snowhog]

With the update yesterday (or the day before?) of xsettings-kde my display began blanking after a few seconds.

xset dpms 0 0 0

stopped the blanking. I put that command into ~/.bash_profile

.bash_profile? Or did you mean .profile? I have no .bash_profile anywhere on my system, but do have a .profile in my users home directory.

[GreyGeek]

With the update yesterday (or the day before?) of xsettings-kde my display began blanking after a few seconds.

xset dpms 0 0 0

stopped the blanking. I put that command into ~/.bash_profile

[Zeikcied]

A while back I posted this thread in the Maverick forums: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...ss-of-settings

The solution was to disable DPMS, and that works just as expected. However, since upgrading to Precise, I've found that DPMS keeps turning itself on, even without me logging out or restarting KDE or xorg.

I use xset to disable DPMS, and it works for a while. I don't know when it turns back on, but it eventually does. Is this a bug? How can I disable it permanently? I don't have a Monitor section in my xorg.conf. I'm not sure where the Xsession or rc.local files are, and I don't understand how adding the xset command to ~/.bashrc would help. (I'm sure it does, I just don't get why.)