Disable Screen Blanking Applications

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

Hi all,

I have a computer that I use to play steaming media. Currently it's using MATE, previously using Cinnamon, under LMDE.

Unfortunately it blanks the screen after about 10 minutes of not being used. I've tried the screen saver settings which are set to two hours (which is as long as I can set it to not blank the screen.)

Can anyone tell me how to completely disable the screen blanking?

Thanks

[xenopeek]

Steaming media? Anyway, when you are in the Screensaver Preferences, have you also looked behind the Power Management button at the bottom? There is the setting that controls when the display goes to sleep.

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

Hi,

Streaming media. such as when watching YouTube, iPlayer or the likes Not sure what you call it.

Anyway, screensaver is set to two hours and the power settings are both set to 'Never'. This computer persists with blanking the screen every 10 minutes. I've tried removing

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 sudo apt-get remove acpi-support acpid

and

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gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled false


Alas, there was no such luck with either of those commands.

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

Ok, so it looks like a program called 'caffeine' would work, unfortunately I can't get it to work.

Stupidly I tried to install the .deb, not sure how to uninstall it and building it from source didn't work.

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

So far, I've got the screen to stay awake unless I'm playing a video. With the screen on the desktop, idle for hours the screen stays awake. If I play a video, it sleeps every 10 minutes.

Please help.

[jjaythomas]

Don't use Mate or cinamon much...
But

If I remember in the panel you can put a plugin called 'inhibit' I remember doung that to watch hulu 'steaming media' the inhibit icon disables screensavers, hibernate ect.
I watch a full lenght movie (2-2 1/2 hours. Power saving was default times.

If I remember correctly
J.Jay

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

I feel like I've missed a joke or calling it something stupid

Anyway, I noticed it's only occurring in VLC, so I've switched to XBMC. Now to find a handy XBMC remote control application.

[deep64blue]

I feel like I've missed a joke or calling it something stupid

Anyway, I noticed it's only occurring in VLC, so I've switched to XBMC. Now to find a handy XBMC remote control application.

I don't get the joke either - streaming media is exactly what it is!

EDIT: Except you called it "steaming" without the crucial r lol

[WhatUsernameIsFree?]

EDIT: Except you called it "steaming" without the crucial r lol

Thanks, how many times did I read and re-read the thread without spotting it?

[trebzgum]

I had the same problem, I set screensaver to 2hrs under Screensaver program since the range is 1 min - 2hrs, and set sleep to never under Power Management and also used mateconf-editor but it kept getting the blank screen after 10 mins. I finally found a temporary solution that worked for me, open terminal and type:

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xset s noblank

you will have to do this after every reboot though since the settings don't get saved. Hope this helps.

[jjaythomas]

you will have to do this after every reboot though since the settings don't get saved. Hope this helps.

make one line script put in auto start.

I think should work
J.Jay