You may have noticed the blanking of screen after an idle timeout. This may be annoying while you are watching a movie. So If you want to disable the X screen blanking that comes up unexpectedly while you’re watching a movie in MPlayer or ..., Type this at terminal setterm -powersave off -blank 0 To make the change permanent, add the following to your ~/.xinitrc file : $ vi . xinitrc add this line setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0 xset s off
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