ID #1086 How to disable screen blank(ing) in Debian? ~ 0 min Daniel Urstöger 06-12-2010 10:41 PDF version This is easy to achieve to just edit this file with your favorite editor: vi /etc/console-tools/config change BLANK_TIME and POWERDOWN_TIME to 0: BLANK_TIME=0 POWERDOWN_TIME=0 reboot, done!