{"id":755,"date":"2013-07-15T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=755"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:48:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:48:52","slug":"stop-screen-going-blank-dark-on-ubuntu-13-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/stop-screen-going-blank-dark-on-ubuntu-13-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Screen Going Blank (Dark) on Ubuntu 13.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu desktop keeps going blank or dark when it is idled for a certain time. That&#8217;s not good if you&#8217;re watching movies on screen. Here&#8217;s the guide to stop your screen being turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Open <b>Brightness &#038; Lock<\/b> from Unity dash search results, or from <i>System Settings<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/brightnesscontrol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/brightnesscontrol-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"brightness&amp;control\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/brightnesscontrol-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/brightnesscontrol.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see the window as the below picture shown. Select &#8220;Never&#8221; in the drop-down box after where it says &#8220;Turn screen off when inactive for&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/disable-screen-blank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/disable-screen-blank.jpg\" alt=\"disable-screen-blank\" width=\"450\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/disable-screen-blank.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/disable-screen-blank-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! There also provides options to disable lock screen and dimming.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu desktop keeps going blank or dark when it is idled for a certain time. That&#8217;s not good if you&#8217;re watching movies on screen. Here&#8217;s the guide to stop your screen being turned off. Open Brightness &#038; Lock from Unity dash search results, or from System Settings You&#8217;ll see the window as the below picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[281,128,280,155,251],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unity","tag-blank","tag-disable-screen-blank-when-watching-movies","tag-keeps","tag-screen","tag-xfce-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}