Comment 46 for bug 30969

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote : Re: xorg suspends monitor regardless of gnome-power-manager timeouts

The xserver defaults to DPMS being on, so if g-s is able to make the monitor sleep regardless, maybe the xserver should be patched not to use DPMS on its own.

Can you confirm that putting 'Option "DPMS" "false"' allows gnome-screensaver still work when timeouts are in use?