configuring dpms

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/27/06, Louis E Garcia II <louisg00 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 21:34 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 10/27/06, Louis E Garcia II <louisg00 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > I'm on fc6 laptop with 945gm video. The default display off time is 20
> > > min. I would like to change that to 5 min. I added Option  "OffTime" "5"
> > > under ServerFlags section of xorg.conf like the man page said but didn't
> > > work. The only thing that worked is xset dpms 0 0 300. Is their a system
> > > wide way of doing this? I guess I can put xset command in rc.local but
> > > xorg.conf should be the way to go.
> >
> > Your desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, etc.) may be overriding your
> > config settings.  Most environments provide a way to set the DPMS
> > timeouts.ect
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > >
> > > -Louis
> > >
>
> Right, gnome-power-manager has perferences for this setting. Seems it
> can't be set for anything under 11 minutes. Is this a limitation of X or
> is g-p-m badly coded?
>

IIRC (I don't have a new version of gnome-power-manager in front of
me, so I could be wrong), the DPMS timeout is tied to the screensaver
timeout, so you have to lower the screensaver timeout to lower the
DPMS timout.

Alex

> --Louis
>
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