auto activation of monitor

[lalit656]

Dear All

Can anyone please prescribe a software for fedora which can periodically activate the monitor and will ensure that monitor does not goes to sleep or suspend or any shell command which can be made part of script. Later the script can be invoke every 15 min to activate the monitor.


Regards

[waterhead]

Do you want to prevent the monitor from sleeping at all? This is usually the X-server that puts it to sleep, and they can be overridden using the xset protocol. You can see all of the options by reading the man page:

man xset

I created a script that disables all of the acpi power-saving options. You only need to run it once. I used it when purposely trying to drain a laptop battery.

#!/bin/bash

xset s noblank
xset s noexpose
xset dpms 0 0 0
xset -dpms

If you want to run a script with different commands, at a given interval, run it as a cron job.