Xset and white screensaver

Hi, ARCH-ers!
I've got a strange problem here. Recently I had installed ARCH on my new laptop and I've noticed that screensaver is... white... I've glanced at xset options but found nothing about screensaver AND changing its color.
What do you think is wrong in here?
--- Logs:
[winged@locked ~]$ 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: 0 cycle: 600
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
PS Don't know why, but I don't have anything about my screen in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ . Is it because it is a laptop, not a PC?
Last edited by Winged4Ever (2014-01-31 14:22:41)

Do you perhaps have xscreensaver installed?
If so check: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … leshooting
As xset DPMS settings do not work with xscreensaver.
What if you turned off blanking?
xset s off
I myself am still quite new here, so I'm not sure if my suggestions are helping, but at least I'm trying
Last edited by SimbaClaws (2014-02-06 12:40:24)

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