Linux Mint - blanking the screen

[pythonmegapixel]

I use Linux Mint (but I think this question is probably the same for most distributions), and it provides this little interface for setting timers for blanking the screen etc.

but the minimum time it will allow me to set is 5 minutes.

I would prefer the display to blank after a shorter time than this - i.e. half a minute. My suspicion is that this menu is simply a graphical interface to a configuration file somewhere, and if I was to edit that, I would be able to set this setting to whatever I like.

If this is the case, where is this configuration file located and which line do I need to edit?
If this is not the case, is there some other way to force the screen blanking time to go lower than 5 minutes?

Thanks in advance for all assistance.

 

[Guest]

I assume your using Cinnamon which is a fork of GNOME3.

You could try the following, where "<value>" is the time in seconds.

• gsettings set org.cinnamon.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-ac <value>
• gsettings set org.cinnamon.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-display-battery <value>
• gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session idle-delay <value>

 

If those don't work, you can try running this to see what values are set.

• gsettings list-recursively | sort | grep -i sleep