[SOLVED] Linux Mint 19.0 Tara Mate - My computer keeps suspending when left idle even if I don't want to

[Clangeddin]

Greetings everyone.
Even though I have set my power options to never suspend/put to sleep the laptop, every time I go afk for 5 minutes or so, the screen goes black and I have to unlock it via password again. I don't want this to happen, what can I do to fix the issue?

My laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T420. In the thumbnails below you can see my current power configuration and system information.

[all41]

Check your settings for Menu/Screensaver. Uncheck the two boxes

[Clangeddin]

It worked, thank you very much.

[all41]

Enjoy your Mint.
Cheers

[HEmscher]

My 18.3 cinnamon 64 does NOT change anything after deactivating the 2 checkboxes in screensaver setting (German: Bildschirmschoner). The time limit is already changed to 2 h. Both energy options are set to never. It is a AMD-PC, NOT a Laptop. No use in accumulator saving.
It always runs black after 5 minutes of no action.
Its no fun to keep your trackman rolling al the time watching a show!

[all41]

My 18.3 cinnamon 64 does NOT change anything after deactivating the 2 checkboxes in screensaver setting (German: Bildschirmschoner). The time limit is already changed to 2 h. Both energy options are set to never. It is a AMD-PC, NOT a Laptop. No use in accumulator saving.
It always runs black after 5 minutes of no action.
Its no fun to keep your trackman rolling al the time watching a show!

Your problem is most likely due to your monitor's energystar compliance.
Try running these in a terminal:

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xset s 0 0
xset -dpms; xset s off

This will get reset when rebooting.
If it keeps the monitor on then you can create a bash script that runs at startup.

[HEmscher]

Hurray!

That did it. With win2k it never occurs, but Alas!

Thanx a lot!

[HEmscher]

As told, the set of commands work.
I've tried to but it in a bash script and stored:
[Desktop Entry]

Name=keep monitors on
Comment==keeps monitors on
Exec=xset s 0 0
Exec=xset -dpms; xset s off
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Settings;
StartupNotify=false

in a .desktop file in etc/xdg/autostart
Much to my chagrin this does not as I expected.

How to mend it?

[all41]

As told, the set of commands work.
I've tried to but it in a bash script and stored:
[Desktop Entry]

Name=keep monitors on
Comment==keeps monitors on
Exec=xset s 0 0
Exec=xset -dpms; xset s off
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Settings;
StartupNotify=false

in a .desktop file in etc/xdg/autostart
Much to my chagrin this does not as I expected.

How to mend it?

I put the bash script in my ~/Documents directory point to that script in Startup Applictions.
It runs at each reboot