Screen goes dark while watching videos

[bsd007]

Hi,

While watching videos on Youtube or any streaming site my screen goes dark after some minutes. I tried searching the menus but didn't find any screensaver.

How can I disable this behaviour ?

[jggimi]

I use these two lines in my .xsession/.xinitrc scripts. See the xset(1) man page for further information and to adjust settings to your own requirements.

xset s off
xset -dpms

[bsd007]

Originally Posted by jggimi

I use these two lines in my .xsession/.xinitrc scripts. See the xset(1) man page for further information and to adjust settings to your own requirements.

xset s off
xset -dpms

I searched in my home dir but didn't find .xsession or .xinitrc.

Should I create one ? If yes which one ? .xsession or .xinitrc ?

[bsd007]

I just created a script and made it executable.

#!/bin/sh
xset s off
xset -dpms

Then went to Applications>Settings>Session and startup>application autostart>add>link to script.

Is this method acceptable ?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

That should work fine for XFCE (is that what you are using?), you should find a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart that runs your script.

If you are using xenodm(1) (or xdm(1)) to log in then you could add the `xset` commands to ~/.xsession instead.

Just to note that `xset` options can be combined:

xset s off -dpms

[jggimi]

Originally Posted by bsd007

I searched in my home dir but didn't find .xsession or .xinitrc.

$HOME/.xsession is used by the X Display Managers, such as xenodm(1), or KDM, or GDM. $HOME/.xinitrc is used by startx(1)/xinit(1).

Should I create one ? If yes which one ? .xsession or .xinitrc ?

You are using a third mechanism, which is an "autostart" script available to you in XFCE.

Originally Posted by Head_on_a_Stick

If you are using xenodm(1) (or xdm(1)) ...

The xdm() Display Manager was removed for OpenBSD 6.1, replaced by xenodm().

[bsd007]

Just tested. Using the autostart option is working.