💻 Disable screen blanking in X

21 Sep 2015

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By default X in Raspbian is configured to blank the screen after 5 minutes of no input. If you are working on something it can be annoying. Also it do not turn off the screen, just blank it.

Here is how to disable it:

xset s off
xset dpms force on

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