Keep the Display From Turning Off on Ubuntu
Displays that constantly turn off drive me crazy. I like to be able to walk by my computer and immediately see what is on the screen without it turning blank. Thankfully Ubuntu provides a way to easily configure this setting.
Navigate to the System \ Preferences \ Power Management menu, and you will see this window:
Here you can easily move the slider all the way to the right to prevent the display from shutting off.
This article was originally written on 11/7/06
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This does not function properly in LTS 6.06. The screen still turns off after several hours, even with the screensaver disabled.
I have feisty, and those settings are IGNORED by the system. It still turns off the screen. I hate it! Is there something I can do?
In a console write
setterm -blank 0
hi from Jan
The above didn’t work
Please help
There are so many variables, what hardware drivers your system has, what desktop you’re running (Ubuntu is gnome by default but could be running KDE or even a rarer environment). With a recent Ubuntu version just use the GUI like the instructions at the top of this page “Navigate to the System \ Preferences \ Power Management menu”. If you really want to use the command line try:
xset -dpms
This should turn off all power saving features. To put them back run:’
xset +dpms