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gnome-screensaver package

  1. Bug #30969
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 30969

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Chris Balcum (sherl0k) wrote : Re: monitor goes to standby when playing a movie in totem fullscreen

Correct, DPMS is the cause of it. If you don't want to disable DPMS for fear it may break something else, add this to your xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "blank time" "0"
Option "standby time" "0"
Option "suspend time" "0"
Option "off time" "0"
EndSection