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easiest way to How to disable screen power management in i3 so the screen does not turn off?

asked 2015-06-10 07:38:47 +0000

cadeshi gravatar image

I use i3 in Ubuntu Studio with xfce DE and it seems that regular xorg.conf editing way is not actual here, cause xfce does not use one. I tried to autostart xfce4-power-manager but it does not start in i3 somehow. So is there a way to stob screen turning off automatically in i3?

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answered 2015-06-10 10:10:16 +0000

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updated 2015-06-10 10:43:45 +0000

Adaephon gravatar image

I just put this into my .xinitrc:

xset s off
xset -dpms
xset s noblank

(See also my answer on /r/i3wm)

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