Desktop power management - screen blanking

[woodsman]

I am learning Puppy and liking what I find.
I also use Knoppix and Mempis.

I find that the screen blanks in Puppy after only a few minutes of
inactivity. I would like to set this time to a longer interval but
can find no utility to configure power management.

Desktop computer is Dell dimension 4700.

Can someone tell me how to configure power management?

[MU]

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... creensaver

I think it deactivates the inbuilt screensaver.

Concerning Powermanagement:
I have no answer, I just can help searching:

use "acpi" as keyword in the Forum-search.

Greets, Mark

[rarsa]

You can set the time in the GTK configuration tool. I don't remember if it's under the "Control centre" or the "Set up" menus.

The only tricky part is that to use the same settings every time, you need to do the following:

1. Change the GTK settings
2. Apply the settings
3. Save the settings to a file (It is saved as a command)
4. Invoke the command, either by invoking sh <file> or by cutting and pasting the command in the .xinitrc

[MU]

Oh yes, I forgot that.

Start - Control panel - Gxset X settings

Mark

[PaulBx1]

The only tricky part is that to use the same settings every time, you need to do the following:

1. Change the GTK settings
2. Apply the settings
3. Save the settings to a file (It is saved as a command)
4. Invoke the command, either by invoking sh <file> or by cutting and pasting the command in the .xinitrc

Does this still work? When I try the "apply" step, I get this long text looking file that pops up but can't be edited, and the settings I've changed in the original window have gone back to their default (0).

I managed to get the screensaver time changed, but not the acpi. I did manage to save a file, but invoking it was not successful:

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sh-3.00# cat .xsetacpi.sh
# This file is written by gxset
# Any changes will be lost the next time you do a save in gxset
xset r rate 660 25 c 0 b 50 400 100 m 2/1 4 s 120 600 s blank s expose dpms 240 0 0 +dpms fp= built-ins,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
sh-3.00# ./.xsetacpi.sh
sh: ./.xsetacpi.sh: Permission denied
sh-3.00# chmod 744 .xsetacpi.sh
sh-3.00# ./.xsetacpi.sh
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".
server does not have extension for dpms option
xset:  unknown option 240

usage:  xset [-display host:dpy] option ...
    To turn bell off:
        -b                b off               b 0
    To set bell volume, pitch and duration:
         b [vol [pitch [dur]]]          b on
etc...