The Screen turn black - now and then

[Jørn Rudolph]

Do not know - If this is a Newbie Question - But I think so ...

Well When I watch a movie with VLC Media Player -
Or watch a film from YouTube ...
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Now and then the screen turn black ...
I push the mouse - and it continue ...

Not often - But still - Maybe each ½ hour (?)

I have turned off screen-shaver .

And turn the computer to "Never to stop" in the electric settings ...

It still do it - turn the screen black for a short moment - Until I push the mouse *

Can anyone here help ? - Please ....

Have a FINE Friday

[trytip]

this is the screensaver, disable it along with screen lock or install caffeine then run it when you watch videos and you don't want the black screen to return

[Jørn Rudolph]

Thank You = Very Much = Trytip !

[Seadreamer]

I use the Mate desktop and have a startup program that works for me.

select control center/startup aplications and create a launcher with xset s 00 in the command section. Name it something, I use Noblank, and save it. Reboot and with screensaver turned off your screen should remain on. Note that is zero zero in the command.

[Termy]

I had this issue at one point, with one distribution or another. The solution for me was to run xset s off in a terminal, and if that failed, to amend it to ~/.bashrc. Not sure why it happens though.

[trytip]

some more info about disable screen blanking. it's arch wiki but should work in mint also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di ... _Signaling

To query the current settings: xset q
for videos i use smplayer which has disable screensaver in preferences/general/video