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Stop X11 from turning off monitor
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Thursday 9 March 2023
Edited: Thursday 9 March 2023
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X11
turns of the monitor after a while (blanking)
The features is called “DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling)”
it can be turned off using
xset -dpms
and can query its status using
xset q
set screen saver off
xset s off
set blanking off
xset s noblank
References
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Archlinux docs