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Hello,

I have a quick question. I have AntiX installed on my IBM Thinkpad x41 sub-notebook and it runs great. My only issue is that when I connect it to my flatscreen tv to watch movie files it puts the screens to sleep after about 10 minutes or so and I have to get up off the comfy couch to move the mouse to reactivate the screens.
I was looking for a way to change the sleep setting for the display. I couldn't find a gui option for this in AntiX.
Is there a commandline way to change the systems power management settings for the Display?

Thanks,
Ant

After some more googling, I think I found the answer:
http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html

But the timeouts can also be specified in the X configuration file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf. In the "Monitor" section, you need a line like:
Option "DPMS"
Then, in the "ServerLayout" section (for Xorg 7.2 and later, make a separate ServerFlags section instead), include lines like this:
Option "BlankTime" "4"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "5"

thanks for the information. Actually, I have a laptop with the opposite problem: it never goes to sleep. Hopefully I can try and set some of the parameters you found and maybe it will work.

Pedro