Setting screen timeout period on 14.04 clients?

[John Hupp]

That's just what I named the state produced by these settings.  It's 
what you would want if you were giving a presentation, playing a movie, 
etc. and didn't want the screen to blank.

On 2/9/2016 9:21 AM, David Groos wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I'll check this out on the weekend. Not sure what "Presentation mode" 
> is in the context of ltsp?
>
> Thanks!
> David
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:37 AM, John Hupp <edubuntu at prpcompany.com 
> <mailto:edubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2/6/2016 1:22 PM, David Groos wrote:
>>     Hi All,
>>     I'm trying to change the settings (on lts.conf?) such that when
>>     I'm broadcasting an image/chart/presentation or whatever on
>>     student screens (thanks to epoptes) the screen doesn't require a
>>     student to move the mouse to keep the screen active. I searched
>>     this page:
>>     http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/lts.conf.5.html
>>     to no avail.
>>     Thanks,
>>     David G
>>
>
>     I'm running Lubuntu and made a script to toggle a pseudo
>     Presentation Mode.  As designed, each student would toggle the
>     setting himself.
>
>     Note: The small package libnotify-bin must be installed to use
>     notify-send.
>     Note: The Presentation Mode settings are not permanent; they
>     expire with the session
>
>     #!/bin/bash
>     # /usr/local/share/applications/xset-mode.sh
>     # A script to toggle between Presentation and Normal mode and
>     notify the user of the mode
>     STATUS_MONITOR=$(xset q | grep "DPMS is" | awk '{print $3}')
>
>         if [ "$STATUS_MONITOR" == "Enabled" ]; then
>
>            xset s off
>            xset -dpms
>            notify-send -t 5000 “The computer is now in Presentation Mode”
>
>         else
>
>            xset s on
>            xset +dpms
>            notify-send -t 5000 “The computer is now in Normal Mode”
>
>         fi
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     A desktop entry file to run the script (and appear in the
>     Preferences menu):
>     /usr/local/share/applications/power-mode-toggler.desktop
>
>     [Desktop Entry]
>     Version=1.0
>
>     Type=Application
>
>     Name=Power Mode Toggle
>     Icon=xfpm-ac-adapter
>
>     Exec=bash /usr/local/share/applications/xset-mode.sh
>     Terminal=false
>
>     Categories=Settings
>     Name[en_US]=Power Mode Toggler
>     Comment[en_US]=Toggle between Presentation and Normal Mode
>
>
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