Monitor/Power Management

[Bob Snyder]

On 04/07/2014 04:40 PM, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm running Xfce 4.8 on Debian, installed on a laptop. I need to display a static image for a long period of time (> 2 hours) without the screen going blank. No matter how I set the power management, the screen always blanks after a few minutes, whether running on AC power or the battery.
>
> Could anybody advise on the simplest way to keep the screen "alive" continuously?
>
> Thanks
>
> Nige

A pretty good discussion of screen blanking in X:

http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html

Bob S.