DPMS and gdm

[Reid Rivenburgh]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>
> > I have a question about DPMS and gdm.  I added the following lines to
> > gdm's Init/Default script:
> >
> > xset +dpms
> > xset dpms 15 30 45
> >
> > (sleep 15; xset dpms force off)&
> >
>
>  If you don't add the force, does the specified timing work?

No, then it just doesn't ever go off.  That was after a quick test
where I waited about a minute.  I'll keep the "force" commented out
and let it go all night to verify that it doesn't turn off after
several hours.

Reid