configuring dpms

[Louis E Garcia II]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 21:34 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Louis E Garcia II <louisg00 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > I'm on fc6 laptop with 945gm video. The default display off time is 20
> > min. I would like to change that to 5 min. I added Option  "OffTime" "5"
> > under ServerFlags section of xorg.conf like the man page said but didn't
> > work. The only thing that worked is xset dpms 0 0 300. Is their a system
> > wide way of doing this? I guess I can put xset command in rc.local but
> > xorg.conf should be the way to go.
> 
> Your desktop environment (Gnome, KDE, etc.) may be overriding your
> config settings.  Most environments provide a way to set the DPMS
> timeouts.ect
> 
> Alex
> 
> >
> > -Louis
> >

Right, gnome-power-manager has perferences for this setting. Seems it
can't be set for anything under 11 minutes. Is this a limitation of X or
is g-p-m badly coded?

--Louis