From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: The screen goes blank even though I've entered xset s off and xset -dpms on the console window which disables blanking in earlier FedoraCore distributions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.type xset s off + xset -dpms on the root console 2.wait 3.screen goes blank Actual Results: Screen goes blank Expected Results: Screen stays on, no screen saver, no power management Additional info:
Please file a bug report in X.Org bugzilla, at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. In your bug report, indicate that you are using the X11R7 RC2 release (6.99.99.902), and attach your X server log and config file. Since X11R7 is in freeze right now, be sure to flag your bug report as blocking bug 1690, the release blocker bug. Once you've filed your report to X.Org, please paste the URL here and Red Hat will track the upstream bug report, and review any fixes that become available for consideration in future builds for Fedora. Thanks in advance. Setting status to "NEEDINFO_REPORTER", and awaiting upstream bug URL for tracking.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5154
Ok, so it seems that there's a component on the desktop environment that controls the screen saver as well and that has to be set also to allow the screen to stay on. I'm not sure if this is a bug, but ofcourse it would be nice if the "xset s off" + "xset -dpms" would do the job without additional work elsewhere.
Any application can enable or disable DPMS, or configure it via X protocol. xset is only one application which allows you to set DPMS. There is no way to prevent other applications from modifying the DPMS settings, as there is no way to know which client is connecting, in order to allow/deny based on the client. It wouldn't be desireable to do this anyway, as some people use and prefer to use xset, while other people prefer to do things via GNOME or KDE control panels, or some other desktop system. This is not a bug, but is a feature of the X Window System, much in the same way that any application can set the wallpaper on the root window, or any one of a number of other settings. Since it appears you've discovered some other application was affecting the DPMS settings, I'm concluding this is not a bug, and setting the status to reflect. Setting status to "NOTABUG"