How do I disable Xfce display power management in xubuntu 16.04 at the command line?

Question

Goal: From the command line, disable the Xfce Power Management setting that controls the display power management.

I've tried to get a list of power management settings from xfce-power-manager but I haven't find the right syntax.

Answer 1

dpms is the Display Power Management Signalling. For the xfce4-power-manager to disable it is a simple command mainly just to quit it.

xfce4-power-manager -q

To re-enable xfce4-power-manager it is:

nohup xfce4-power-manager & 2>&1 >/dev/null

To disable the dpms run the following command:

xset -dpms

To enable dpms it is just the opposite:

xset dpms

Hope this helps!