DPMS on i3 -- screen timeout issues

Hi all,

Running into a strange issue on i3wm. I have been running endeavourOS with i3 for a couple of years now and have set my screen timeout through the xpce4-power-manager gui app. However, after the last update, my system goes into a screen timeout after 10 minutes, even though my settings have it set for 60 minutes. Even when I check xset, it also has the same setting:

xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: off 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 660 repeat rate: 25
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 600 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
built-ins
DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling):
Standby: 3600 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On

I do not set this elsewhere either. There is no setting in my i3 config, there is no setting in my xinitrc, and there is no file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-serverflags.conf (as recommended by the following https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_Power_Management_Signaling)

So I am not sure why it is that the screen is timing out after 10 minutes. Any ideas would be most helpful!

This happened with the XFCE power manager update (Not the only power manager affected I understand MATE also has issues)

If you want to turn off DPMS then you need put this command in an .xprofile under your user folder

xset s off -dpms &

Note this will turn off the automatic turn off every 10 minutes and set it to never turn off.

Looks like this worked, thanks!

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