How to disable screensaver in Ubuntu 18.04?
How do you disable the screensaver/powersave function in Ubuntu 18.04?
In Ubuntu 16, you disabled the screensaver in two steps:
- First, opening the screensaver gui and selecting "none". But this alone didn't stop the monitor from blanking.
- The X server had its own powersave feature that would turn off monitor output when nothing on the screen changed. To disable that, you had to run
xset s off.
In Ubuntu 18.04, the second part no longer works. Even though I've run xset s off, my monitor output still blanks if nothing changes after a few minutes. How do I fix that?
I'm running the XFCE desktop, with the xubuntu-desktop package, if that matters.
18.04 screensaver
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How do you disable the screensaver/powersave function in Ubuntu 18.04?
In Ubuntu 16, you disabled the screensaver in two steps:
- First, opening the screensaver gui and selecting "none". But this alone didn't stop the monitor from blanking.
- The X server had its own powersave feature that would turn off monitor output when nothing on the screen changed. To disable that, you had to run
xset s off.
In Ubuntu 18.04, the second part no longer works. Even though I've run xset s off, my monitor output still blanks if nothing changes after a few minutes. How do I fix that?
I'm running the XFCE desktop, with the xubuntu-desktop package, if that matters.
18.04 screensaver
asked Oct 19 '18 at 13:59
CerinCerin
2,33384175
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How do you disable the screensaver/powersave function in Ubuntu 18.04?
In Ubuntu 16, you disabled the screensaver in two steps:
- First, opening the screensaver gui and selecting "none". But this alone didn't stop the monitor from blanking.
- The X server had its own powersave feature that would turn off monitor output when nothing on the screen changed. To disable that, you had to run
xset s off.
In Ubuntu 18.04, the second part no longer works. Even though I've run xset s off, my monitor output still blanks if nothing changes after a few minutes. How do I fix that?
I'm running the XFCE desktop, with the xubuntu-desktop package, if that matters.
18.04 screensaver
asked Oct 19 '18 at 13:59
CerinCerin
2,33384175
How do you disable the screensaver/powersave function in Ubuntu 18.04?
In Ubuntu 16, you disabled the screensaver in two steps:
- First, opening the screensaver gui and selecting "none". But this alone didn't stop the monitor from blanking.
- The X server had its own powersave feature that would turn off monitor output when nothing on the screen changed. To disable that, you had to run
xset s off.
In Ubuntu 18.04, the second part no longer works. Even though I've run xset s off, my monitor output still blanks if nothing changes after a few minutes. How do I fix that?
I'm running the XFCE desktop, with the xubuntu-desktop package, if that matters.
18.04 screensaver
18.04 screensaver
asked Oct 19 '18 at 13:59
CerinCerin
2,33384175
asked Oct 19 '18 at 13:59
CerinCerin
2,33384175
asked Oct 19 '18 at 13:59
CerinCerin
2,33384175
asked Oct 19 '18 at 13:59
CerinCerin
2,33384175
asked Oct 19 '18 at 13:59
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Since you're running Xfce, you could try changing the settings of the Xfce Power Manager.
Find Power Manager in the Applications menu or runxfce4-power-manager -c
from the terminal. Then you can change the settings in the Display tab.
If Display Power Management is turned ON, then the Power Manager should be in control instead of X11. You should then be able to prevent blank/sleep/power off by setting the appropriate sliders to Never.
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Since you're running Xfce, you could try changing the settings of the Xfce Power Manager.
Find Power Manager in the Applications menu or runxfce4-power-manager -c
from the terminal. Then you can change the settings in the Display tab.
If Display Power Management is turned ON, then the Power Manager should be in control instead of X11. You should then be able to prevent blank/sleep/power off by setting the appropriate sliders to Never.
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Since you're running Xfce, you could try changing the settings of the Xfce Power Manager.
Find Power Manager in the Applications menu or runxfce4-power-manager -c
from the terminal. Then you can change the settings in the Display tab.
If Display Power Management is turned ON, then the Power Manager should be in control instead of X11. You should then be able to prevent blank/sleep/power off by setting the appropriate sliders to Never.
answered Feb 22 at 9:58
CinnamCinnam
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Since you're running Xfce, you could try changing the settings of the Xfce Power Manager.
Find Power Manager in the Applications menu or runxfce4-power-manager -c
from the terminal. Then you can change the settings in the Display tab.
If Display Power Management is turned ON, then the Power Manager should be in control instead of X11. You should then be able to prevent blank/sleep/power off by setting the appropriate sliders to Never.
answered Feb 22 at 9:58
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Since you're running Xfce, you could try changing the settings of the Xfce Power Manager.
Find Power Manager in the Applications menu or runxfce4-power-manager -c
from the terminal. Then you can change the settings in the Display tab.
If Display Power Management is turned ON, then the Power Manager should be in control instead of X11. You should then be able to prevent blank/sleep/power off by setting the appropriate sliders to Never.
answered Feb 22 at 9:58
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