George Toft wrote:

>I am having a problem controlling my DPMS settings.  This is on
>a SUSE 7.3 box, running the default kernel, XFree, with icewm.
>Currently, the box turns off the monitor after about a minute.
>I need to change that to one hour.  I've tried using:
>
>xset dpms 3600 4200 4800
>
>both as root and as my unpriv user, and it still turns off the
>monitor after about one minute.  I tried:
>
>xset -dpms
>
>as root to turn off DMPS completely, and the monitor still turns off
>after one minute.
>
>What am I missing?
>
>George
>
>
>_
>
There is an additional command to xset. "xset s off" which turns offf 
screensaver mode.
Try "xset q" for complete help
Art Wagner

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