After updating to LM18.2 Cinnamon - i am having the same problem.
After about One minute of inactivity my screen will go blank.
I have tried everything I can think of, ... and tried ALL of the suggestions for Mate or any others i find posted.
Nothing seems to be stopping this.
I have resorted to Manually going into System Monitor and "killing" the screensaver app.
Hopefully that will continue to do the trick.
Other than that I am VERY satisfied with Linux Mint Cinnamon 18.2 .
Thanks for a Great product.
How to disable screen blanking?
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Re: How to disable screen blanking?
Manually killing the screensaver app in system monitor does not work for me. Neither does End Process or Stop Process. I might try changing to a newer kernel.
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Re: How to disable screen blanking? Solved (for me)
I suffered with this also, for almost 4 months, almost gave up, nothing seemed to fix this..
AS OF......OCTOBER 13, 2017
I use dual 19" "e-Machines" monitors, and, I have a screen saver installed,
tried everyone's suggestions in vain until I
opened a Terminal, and finally found this from "Flemur" way back in 2014:
My system info, follows
OptiPlex-740 ~ $ inxi -Fxzd
System: Host: OptiPlex-740 Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: Dell product: OptiPlex 740 Enhanced
Mobo: Dell model: 0YP806 version: A00 Bios: Dell version: 2.1.6 date: 05/04/2008
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 4008.48
Clock Speeds: 1: 1000.00 MHz 2: 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] bus-ID: 03:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP51 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:10.1
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 03:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network: Card-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 ver: 3.134 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter usb-ID: 0bda:8176
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1240.3GB (2.0% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HD083GJ size: 80.0GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdg model: 2ACE size: 160.0GB 3: USB id: /dev/sdf model: EAVS size: 1000.2GB
Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A rev: N/A dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 48x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none state: N/A
Partition: ID: / size: 74G used: 9.6G (14%) fs: ext2 ID: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 181 Uptime: 21:13 Memory: 1471.8/3952.5MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
AS OF......OCTOBER 13, 2017
I use dual 19" "e-Machines" monitors, and, I have a screen saver installed,
tried everyone's suggestions in vain until I
opened a Terminal, and finally found this from "Flemur" way back in 2014:
Three hours so far of no blanking. Yaaaay!! Thanks Flemur, if you're still here!$ xset s off
$ xset -dpms
My system info, follows
OptiPlex-740 ~ $ inxi -Fxzd
System: Host: OptiPlex-740 Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Machine: System: Dell product: OptiPlex 740 Enhanced
Mobo: Dell model: 0YP806 version: A00 Bios: Dell version: 2.1.6 date: 05/04/2008
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 4008.48
Clock Speeds: 1: 1000.00 MHz 2: 1000.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] bus-ID: 03:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP51 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:10.1
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series] driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 03:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network: Card-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express driver: tg3 ver: 3.134 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter usb-ID: 0bda:8176
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1240.3GB (2.0% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HD083GJ size: 80.0GB
2: USB id: /dev/sdg model: 2ACE size: 160.0GB 3: USB id: /dev/sdf model: EAVS size: 1000.2GB
Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A rev: N/A dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 48x multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none state: N/A
Partition: ID: / size: 74G used: 9.6G (14%) fs: ext2 ID: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 181 Uptime: 21:13 Memory: 1471.8/3952.5MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4
Re: How to disable screen blanking?(solved for me) NOT!
using the code in a terminal, it only worked for a few days.
it still continues blanking, every few minutes, even with running the code as sudo.
So.... back to square 1.
it still continues blanking, every few minutes, even with running the code as sudo.
So.... back to square 1.
Re: How to disable screen blanking?
What does
cat /sys/module/kernel/parameters/consoleblank
return?Dell Inspiron 1525 - LM17.3 CE 64-------------------Lenovo T440 - Manjaro KDE with Mint VMs
Toshiba NB250 - Manjaro KDE------------------------Acer Aspire One D255E - LM21.3 Xfce
Acer Aspire E11 ES1-111M - LM18.2 KDE 64 ----… Two ROMS don't make a WRITE …
Toshiba NB250 - Manjaro KDE------------------------Acer Aspire One D255E - LM21.3 Xfce
Acer Aspire E11 ES1-111M - LM18.2 KDE 64 ----… Two ROMS don't make a WRITE …
Re: How to disable screen blanking?
I'm also having this annoying issue with LM18.2 mate, and as everyone else, i also have tried every possible setting with no success.
When i run that command that BG405 gave, it returns "0"
Nothing else.
Has anyone come up with a solution?
When i run that command that BG405 gave, it returns "0"
Nothing else.
Has anyone come up with a solution?
Re: How to disable screen blanking?
It's a royal PITA and no mistake .
I've been using 17.3 cinnamon for years and I finally found a nice fix for this with an app called "wakefull " , and I made some notes here :-
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=252968&p=1361119&h ... e#p1361119
I recently started to build a twin of my system onto a fresh install of 18.2 cinnamon ( as an experiment in " future-proofing " )
and most things were very easy to duplicate , but "wakefull " did not play nicely , and I semi-borked my new system trying to force it
I'd like to hear from any 18.2 users who have made wakefull work ( or something similar ) .
Such a nice little app !
It did exactly what the OP wants , and everything that I had wanted .... it shouldn't be difficult to adapt for 18.2 , should it ?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wakefull/files/
I've been using 17.3 cinnamon for years and I finally found a nice fix for this with an app called "wakefull " , and I made some notes here :-
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=252968&p=1361119&h ... e#p1361119
I recently started to build a twin of my system onto a fresh install of 18.2 cinnamon ( as an experiment in " future-proofing " )
and most things were very easy to duplicate , but "wakefull " did not play nicely , and I semi-borked my new system trying to force it
I'd like to hear from any 18.2 users who have made wakefull work ( or something similar ) .
Such a nice little app !
It did exactly what the OP wants , and everything that I had wanted .... it shouldn't be difficult to adapt for 18.2 , should it ?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wakefull/files/
Re: How to disable screen blanking?
Here's what solved the same problem for me:Brian Potter wrote: ⤴Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:12 pm But it still blanks after roughly 30 minutes regardless of whether i am watching videos or not...if the keyboard or mouse has not been used then the screen goes to sleep regardless.
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=291658
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Re: How to disable screen blanking?
I upgraded to LM 19.1 and no longer have this issue. Why that is, I have no idea. LM 19.1 seems a lot better than LM18 was. I had niggly annoying little issues with LM18 but so far 19 is running nicely.
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