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xset is good to know

Thu, 19 May 2005

xset is one of those programs I keep learning how useful it is.

I just (re-)learned how to turn off/on DPMS support in X:

# xset -dpms

Querying the results:

# xset q

I should note that FreeBSD's power settings (4.x) don't honor xset, however (afaik). I'm fiddling with sysctl settings:

machdep.apm_standby_delay
machdep.apm_suspend_delay

I've set these to 0, but the screen still goes blank after a while in X. The screen never blanks in a console (only X). That seems to say that it's an X setting.

Got it:

# xset s reset s off