Just installed the new release of Zorin (core) and have discovered that the screen goes blank in less than a minute, no matter my settings for power savings options. Even if I have it turned off for a blank screen to appear after inactivity. I have an ASUS TUF Gaming F17. Thanks.
Does running either of the following in terminal help:
xset s off
xset s 0 0
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to wait until it repeats this problem, for now, I've restarted it and the problem isn't happening. It's weird, it was happening on the beta, I installed the final release and it also happened. And it's happening on my wife's Acer (also the beta). So lots of variables there.
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Well I tried that after it started acting up again, and it's still going to blank screen after just a few seconds. Hopefully Zorin will create a fix for this soon.
Did you reboot in between? The command is for the session.
If you did not reboot, try
xset s off && xset -dpms
If you did reboot, in your Home Directory, tap ctl+h to show the hidden system files and right click on .profile and choose Open With Text Editor.
Add that command as the bottom line your .profile to have it auto-run for every session.
If it is blanking after a few seconds, this may be a graphics issue; In which case please post the terminal output of
sudo lshw -C video
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Was experiencing the same thing on 17 Pro and this seems to have fixed it. Thanks!
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However, this seems to cause the screen to never go blank, even if I have dim screen enabled in the Settings?
The xset -dpms command turns off Display Power Management Signaling.
You can run
xset +dpms
to re-enable DPMS.
In your Screensaver settings, you can set the blanking time to "never".,
You are not the only user of Zorin OS 17 that has noted the screen blanking after 30 seconds or 60 seconds despite the Display settings. Given your output and experience above, I would like to tag this for the @staff to review.
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Works for me thx!
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