How to keep the monitor always on

On my LXDE/OpenBox Raspbian 9 for RPi3, there isn't an OpenBox gui for that.

This discussion installs xscreensaver & disables it or alternatively mod/s a lightdm config file.

Elsewhere I've read of using pm-utils which is in the repos and you can read about in the Arch wiki.

Thanks for the link, and I edited the lightdm.conf file, then rebooted the pi and the monitor is always on now.

Assuming you're using X, and not experimenting with Wayland:

xset -dpms

...does the trick. Note that this *only* disables standby; you'll have to switch the screensaver off as well. I don't know if it affects the various deskop environments' own screensavers, but...

xset s off

...will disable the one built-in to X itself.

Off the top of my head, I don't know if xset is installed by default in Raspbian (it isn't in Arch; xorg-xset is the package there). It's a handy little tool, and the manpage is very helpful.

Hello Rob H and others,

Sat. 26 Oct 2019, 11:30:37, Robh wrote to All:

RH> is there a setting somewhere which will allow the monitor or video to be RH> always on and not go into standby.

RH> In ubuntu it is easy to find, but I can't find where to do what I want RH> on the Pi4

I did it years ago in the following way:

$ sudo cp -av /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.bak For a backup of the file you are going to edit.

$ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf Search: #xserver-command = X Change that into: xserver-command = X -s 0 -dpms Then save the edited file, and reboot.

Later on I changed it to: xserver-command = X -s 60 dpms so now it only blanks once an hour.

I also did the following:

sudo nano /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf At the end of that file, add this line: greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on Save the file and reboot, and your NumLock key should still be on Ofcourse I had to install numLockx first. Because that was also a setting I was missing in the setup config of Raspbian Stretch. For the Raspberry Pi 4B you have to do these changes in Raspbian Buster. But after that your Raspbian Buster (micro-)SDcard works in almost all (old) Pi's, i.e. 1B, 1B+, 2B, Zero(W), 3B, 3B+ and 4B. I never worked with the Zero and smaller A models, but only the more capable B ones, i.e. as desktop machines. I once tested my Eminent EM1010 USB2A to RJ45 Eth module for 10/100 mbps networking on a friends Pi Zero with a micro USB to USB2A cable. Good luck with it.

Greets form Henri.