Lxpup Power Management Laptop Settings???

[kjacobs]

HI again,

Well, so far Lxpup has been working great....I am very pleased with it on this older laptop. Last night we tried to watch a DVD on it....and it worked great until the laptop screen went black. Of course, it came back on after touchng the touch pad. However, I could not figure out how to keep the laptop screen from going blank every 10 min....so switched to a differnt laptop for the remainder of the movie.

The screen saver is off....so there must be a way to change the power management settings for the laptop???? I just could not find the settings for that anywhere......

[peebee]

HI again,

Well, so far Lxpup has been working great....I am very pleased with it on this older laptop. Last night we tried to watch a DVD on it....and it worked great until the laptop screen went black. Of course, it came back on after touchng the touch pad. However, I could not figure out how to keep the laptop screen from going blank every 10 min....so switched to a differnt laptop for the remainder of the movie.

The screen saver is off....so there must be a way to change the power management settings for the laptop???? I just could not find the settings for that anywhere......

I think the command you need is xset with s options

http://linux.die.net/man/1/xset

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 458#642458

There are various places you could try putting the command:

- in the startup script for your dvd player

- in a desktop icon

- in a /root/startup script

The default is set by /root/.xinitrc

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xset s 600 600 s blank

[kjacobs]

Thanks for the quick reply again....

I took a look at the links and different ways to use the command. I only really need it on VLC when running a video at the moment. So, I did a little snooping and discovered there were 2 different files for launching vlc......vlc and vlc1. Upon looking at the vlc1 file I noticed that it does have the command to turn off the screen power down. So, I changed my shortcut accordingly and it appears to be fine now.

Any way to add the monitor power setting options to be adjusted in the monitor settings or a power management link???