configuring dpms

[Louis E Garcia II]

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 00:16 -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Louis E Garcia II <louisg00 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> 
> IIRC (I don't have a new version of gnome-power-manager in front of
> me, so I could be wrong), the DPMS timeout is tied to the screensaver
> timeout, so you have to lower the screensaver timeout to lower the
> DPMS timout.
> 
> Alex
> 
> > --Louis
> >
> >

Yes someone told me that on their mailing list.  Sorry to bother you
with this.

-Louis