On 16-Jun-98 Douglas Denault wrote:
> If this post does not belong here - I just subscribed here last night
> and I apoligize for the extranious bandwidth, but I am using FVWM 1.24
> on a BSDI 3.1 system.
It's a tad off-topic, not being a window-manager issue,
but the group's usually pretty good-natured about this sort of question.
> The Question:
>
> What is the syntax for setting the DPMS power settings? In installing
> the X server /etc/Xaccell.ini is setup with:
>
> :
> [SCREEN]
> Board = "s3/764-1.xqa";
> Monitor = "mfreq/mfreq64.vda";
> Depth = 8;
> Desktop = 1024x768;
> EnergyStar = YES;
> :
>
> The .xinitrc file refers to SuspendTime and OffTime. Are these set with
> xset or added to /etc/Xaccell.ini?
Yes. Both.
> the BSDI man pages do not mentions these parms at all. The only ref
> to DPMS is to say it is experiemental (it works using some defaults).
Your AcceleratedX install should have included a verbose man
page called Xaccel.1, which should explain the Xaccel.ini setup, so try
"man Xaccel" (or, better, if you use xman, look for Xaccel at the top of
Section 1).
To change the settings on the fly, use "xset s [settings]" -
check the xset man page. I normally set it like so -
xset s 600 300
in a little script that I run from the InitFunction function in my
fvwmrc. This gives me 10 minutes before the monitor is kicked into
standby mode, then another 5 before it shuts off.
> My final question is can/does with work with using a screen saver. I.e.,
> I would like to have xlock get turned on and then have the monitor move
> to the low power modes after an interval.
Er...does what work with the screensaver? :-) In any case
the answer is yes. If you mean FVWM, it doesn't interfere with the
screensaver. If you mean the AcceleratedX X server, yes, it works fine
with xlock. Xaccel will switch your monitor to low power mode regardless
of whether xlock is running or not.
I believe that xscreensaver, on the other hand, overrides the X
server's DPMS settings. I'm not sure there's any way around this short
of writing a little script to manipulate xscreensaver, and shut it down
after a suitable interval.
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Received on Tue Jun 16 1998 - 22:08:06 BST