xset commands

[lakesnative]

Hello all (happy Friday nite!).

I installed tiny core 14.0 just shortly before the release of tiny core 15.0
Did a frugal HDD install and after a moderate learning curve and lots of help from the forum, got what has been a nice stable system running on an old Acer Aspire 3680, which must have been a fairly robust computer at the time.  Someone had discarded it for junk after removing the hard disk drive. I was able to purchase a 500 gb laptop drive on amazon for around $17 delivered (or something very close to that without going back and checking).

My current question for the forums is:  if I want to add this xset command  [xset s off -dpms] so that it's executed at boot up where/how do I do that.  From reading online it would seem to go in the .xsession file located in my home directory,  but I don't want to break anything at the moment. 

Here is my current .xsession file:

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/usr/local/bin/Xvesa -br -screen 1024x768x24 -shadow -mouse /dev/input/mice,5 -nolisten tcp -I >/dev/null 2>&1 &
export XPID=$!
waitforX || ! echo failed in waitforX || exit
"$DESKTOP" 2>/tmp/wm_errors &
export WM_PID=$!
[ -x $HOME/.setbackground ] && $HOME/.setbackground
[ -x $HOME/.mouse_config ] && $HOME/.mouse_config &
[ $(which "$ICONS".sh) ] && ${ICONS}.sh &
[ -d "/usr/local/etc/X.d" ] && find "/usr/local/etc/X.d" -type f -o -type l | sort | while read F; do . "$F"; done
[ -d "$HOME/.X.d" ] && find "$HOME/.X.d" -type f -o -type l | sort | while read F; do . "$F"; done
On a side note,  in tweaking the program I'm using I discovered xfe file manager which has been a wonderful addition.  It's so easy to associate files with a program and then just click to open.  I had used rox-filer often,  but I must say xfe seems to be a lot easier.

- Lakesnative -

    [Edit]: Added code tags.  Rich

[Rich]

Hi lakesnative
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[Rich]

Hi lakesnative
Create a file (any name you want) in your .X.d directory
containing the following:

xset s off -dpms &

.xsession will automatically run the command after the
GUI is up and running.

[lakesnative]

thank you for the solution once again Rich  and for explaining the way to post code in the forum
I considered posting it as an image file, but that was not as easy as I thought it would be last time I tried that due to the size of the file.

Definitely glad I posted the question of how to add the xset command and didn't experiment because I would have done it wrong! 

- Lakesnative -

[Rich]

Hi lakesnative

... I considered posting it as an image file, ...

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