I have Blank screen disabled but my PC seems to be ignoring this. This issue also ignores the Caffeine extension. This is pretty recent behavior as it's been working for a long while now.
Disabling idle-dim in dconf seems to have done it.
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This is from another answer I posted recently. You may not need the Login screen section.
Terminal CLI method
To prevent screen from turning off you need two settings, one under battery power the other when plugged into wall outlet (A/C).
For battery timeout:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout <time_in_seconds>
For AC timeout:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout <time_in_seconds>
So for both Battery and A/C set the time to 0 (never).
For Login screen:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver idle-activation-enabled false
Disable dimming screen when idle:
In Unix & Linux someone complained when on battery screen dims every 20 seconds and wants to turn that feature off:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim false
answered Jan 30, 2018 at 12:07
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I'm on a desktop so I don't think those apply. They're both set to 'nothing' either way. The third suggestion was already disabled. There is an idle-dim option that's enabled though. I'll try disabling that. Jan 30, 2018 at 19:24
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Did the idle-dim work? I'm curious why you accepted my answer if it was incomplete? None-the-less I'm adding idle-dim to the answer. Jan 31, 2018 at 0:44
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Sorry, I accepted it because it led me to that option. If that was wrong my bad. I left my screen on for 40 minutes while I did other stuff and it didn't turn off so yes I think that worked. Feb 1, 2018 at 0:35
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I'm not complaining that you accepted it... I added the
idledim` option to the answer so it will help others. Just let me know if the answer is correct now is all I ask. Thanks. Feb 1, 2018 at 0:43
Nothing in the accepted answer has worked for me in 18.04. Instead I had to do the following:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-brightness 100
Note that this doesn't set the idle to 100% of the max but 100% of the current setting (at least I think that's what it's doing). If you have your screen dimmed already it will stay dimmed.
I just want to add, that as a troubleshooting step w.r.t. my ...
Conspiratorially derived answer, that Ubuntu "Did Not Want" me logged into "Gnome on Xorg" ... as it sure seemed.
After a restart and the issue gone ... again, I specifically logged out of "Ubuntu" and logged back in via "Gnome on Xorg",
and No Problems! Issue APPEARS gone still?? (all other things being equal)
... So what has changed since this morning?
You tell me!
answered Nov 14, 2019 at 23:00
xset s off -dpmsto turn of dpms and prevent screen blanking assuming you use X