On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 08:19 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
At some point recently, my monitor stopped getting turned off after
the
prescribed period of inactivity. I'm using the XFCE power manager,
and its
settings remain untouched.
Manually executing "xset dpms force off" turns the monitor off
normally.
"xset q" shows that everything appears to be in order:
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 300 Suspend: 360 Off: 420
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
So, what else can I check?
I doubt this is your issue, but just in case...
Does it only fail to do the "Off" part or is it not doing any of the
three?
I got tired of cats and random vibrations waking my monitor up, so I
added the below to my startup programs:
cat xscreensaver-mouse-disble.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# This watches for transitions of `xscreen saver` and disables the
mouse when it turns on
# and enables the mouse when it wakes up. This stops the mouse from
waking the monitor.
#
my $blanked = 0;
open (IN, "xscreensaver-command -watch |");
while (<IN>) {
if (m/^(BLANK|LOCK)/) {
if (!$blanked) {
system "xinput --set-prop 8 'Device Enabled' '0'";
$blanked = 1;
}
} elsif (m/^UNBLANK/) {
system "xinput --set-prop 8 'Device Enabled' '1'";
$blanked = 0;
}
}
--
Doug H.