<div dir="ltr">oops! the music file-loop just prevents it from sleeping. sorry.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Derek Trotter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com" target="_blank">expat.arizonan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 03/30/2014 11:58 PM, Brian Cluff
wrote:<br>
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</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">You can
try running the command:
<br>
<br>
xset -dpms
<br>
<br>
make sure to turn it back on after you are done watching your
movie with:
<br>
<br>
xset +dpms
<br>
<br>
You can check the status of dpms with:
<br>
<br>
xset -q
<br>
<br>
DPMS being turned off will keep the system from turning off the
monitor after a period of time, but it won't keep a screen saver
from coming on.
<br>
<br>
You can also change the time limits before things occur, so you
can set it for longer than 2 hours to keep it from kicking in
during movies but still have it shut off the monitor after a very
long period of "no use".
<br>
<br>
The reason I found this command is that some video players seem to
turn off DPMS but if they crash during play they don't turn it
back on so my monitors were staying on all night.
<br>
<br>
As a result I created an icon that not only turns DPMS (back) on,
it also tells the system to instantly put the monitors into sleep
mode.
<br>
<br>
Brian Cluff
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 03/30/2014 10:15 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">What lead me to discover this is that this
beast keeps shutting the
<br>
monitor off after so many minutes of inactivity. It doesn't
count me
<br>
watching a movie as activity. So I have to remember every few
minutes
<br>
to move the mouse. Until I get this kded thing fixed, does
anyone know
<br>
another way to stop this beast from turning off the monitor?
<br>
<br>
Thanks
<br>
<br>
On 03/30/2014 09:23 PM, Harold wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I believe you are looking at the KDE
Daemon
<br>
<br>
See if this gives any clues:
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54120" target="_blank">https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54120</a>
<br>
<br>
harold
<br>
<br>
On 03/30/2014 09:19 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I've got Kubuntu 13.10 and KDE 4.11.3.
Today I went into system
<br>
settings, then power management. I get an error message
saying
<br>
"Power management configuration module could not be loaded.
The
<br>
power management service appears not to be running. This
can be
<br>
solved by starting or scheduling it inside "Startup and
shutdown"
<br>
<br>
So I go to startup and shutdown, then I click service
manager. I get
<br>
a message saying Unable to contact KDED.
<br>
<br>
I have no idea what KDED is or how to fix this. Any ideas?
<br>
<br>
Thanks
<br>
<br>
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