DPMS in one of two monitors

[Diego Cardinali]

Ok, thanks for the clarification. Then I wonder why the xorg.conf file
gives you the chance to set it separately!

Il mer 20 giu 2018, 17:16 Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Diego Cardinali
> <cardinalidiego at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I am using Lubuntu 18.04 64bit with a radeon hd4650 video card and I'm
> using
> > a monitor on vga port and a tv on hdmi.
> > I am trying to enable dpms settings only for the vga monitor while
> disabling
> > it for the tv-hdmi
> > I did some searches around and came up with this solution: create a
> > 10-monitor.conf file to put in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the
> > following text
> >
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >
> > Identifier   "HDMI-0"
> >
> > Option "RightOf" "VGA-0"
> >
> > Option          "DPMS" "true"
> >
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >
> > Identifier   "VGA-0"
> >
> > Option "LeftOf" "HDMI-0"
> >
> > Option          "DPMS" "false"
> >
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >
> > Option "StandbyTime" "1"
> >
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> > I used the same identifiers xrandr uses
> > I have set a low standbytime so it's easier to check if it works or not.
> > At the moment it doesn't work at all, not even in the tv-hdmi output, but
> > the ServerFlags section does affect the system (as far as I know checking
> > with xset -q)
> > You can find my Xorg.0.log at https://pastebin.com/5KB16DJ0 , where I
> > noticed
> >
> > [    27.014] (==) RADEON(0): DPMS enabled
> >
> > any suggestions?
> > I tried with xset but it affects both the monitors
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
>
> There is no way in the X server to only enable DPMS on one monitor.
> It's either on or off globally.
>
> Alex
>
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