oops! the music file-loop just prevents it from sleeping. sorry.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com>wrote:

>  Thanks.
>
>  On 03/30/2014 11:58 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>
> You can try running the command:
>
> xset -dpms
>
> make sure to turn it back on after you are done watching your movie with:
>
> xset +dpms
>
> You can check the status of dpms with:
>
> xset -q
>
> 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.
>
> 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".
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 03/30/2014 10:15 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>
> What lead me to discover this is that this beast keeps shutting the
> monitor off after so many minutes of inactivity.  It doesn't count me
> watching a movie as activity.  So I have to remember every few minutes
> to move the mouse.  Until I get this kded thing fixed, does anyone know
> another way to stop this beast from turning off the monitor?
>
> Thanks
>
> On 03/30/2014 09:23 PM, Harold wrote:
>
> I believe you are looking at the KDE Daemon
>
> See if this gives any clues:
>
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54120
>
> harold
>
> On 03/30/2014 09:19 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>
> I've got Kubuntu 13.10 and KDE 4.11.3. Today I went into system
> settings, then power management.  I get an error message saying
> "Power management configuration module could not be loaded.  The
> power management service appears not to be running.  This can be
> solved by starting or scheduling it inside "Startup and shutdown"
>
> So I go to startup and shutdown, then I click service manager. I get
> a message saying Unable to contact KDED.
>
> I have no idea what KDED is or how to fix this.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
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