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- | ====== Frequently Asked Questions ====== | ||
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- | ===== Why doesn' | ||
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- | **Display Power Management Signaling** (DPMS) has been disabled by another application. This can be confirmed and resolved using the '' | ||
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- | < | ||
- | $ xset -q | ||
- | DPMS (Energy Star): | ||
- | Standby: 1200 Suspend: 0 Off: 3600 | ||
- | DPMS is Disabled | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | If DPMS is disabled, it can be turned back on with '' | ||
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- | < | ||
- | $ xset +dpms | ||
- | $ xset -q | ||
- | DPMS (Energy Star): | ||
- | Standby: 1200 Suspend: 0 Off: 3600 | ||
- | DPMS is Enabled | ||
- | Monitor is On | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | ===== Why doesn' | ||
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- | ==== Possibility A ==== | ||
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- | The screensaver daemon is not currently running. You can check this by looking at the running processes, or just run '' | ||
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- | < | ||
- | $ xfce4-screensaver | ||
- | ** (xfce4-screensaver: | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | ==== Possibility B ==== | ||
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- | Another application has disabled the X11 screensaver. This can be determined by running '' | ||
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- | < | ||
- | $ xdg-screensaver status | ||
- | disabled | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | If this command outputs " | ||
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- | < | ||
- | $ xset s blank # Sets the X11 screensaver mode to " | ||
- | $ xset s 300 # Sets the X11 screensaver timeout to 5 minutes | ||
- | $ xdg-screensaver status | ||
- | enabled | ||
- | </ | ||
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