Comments on: Keep the Display From Turning Off on Ubuntu

By: John H

John H — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:16:55 +0000

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

By: Tj

Tj — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:59:06 +0000

The above didn’t work Please help

By: jan

jan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:08:56 +0000

In a console write

setterm -blank 0

hi from Jan

By: Reez

Reez — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:18:47 +0000

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?

By: Yeorwned

Yeorwned — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:20:27 +0000

This does not function properly in LTS 6.06. The screen still turns off after several hours, even with the screensaver disabled.