Stopping the screen from blanking
Originally to: All Hello everybody. I have tried to find it in the SuSE manuals but no joy. I want to prevent the screen from blanking as it interfers with lockvs, a locking screensaver. Anyone know how to do it. Sean <-> Information This message originated from a Fidonet system and was gated at There Can Only be 1 (http://www.tcob1.net) For information of Fidonet visit http://www.fidonet.org Please do not respond direct to this message.
setterm -blank 0 man setterm Matt -- "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves." On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Sean Rima wrote:
Originally to: All
Hello everybody.
I have tried to find it in the SuSE manuals but no joy. I want to prevent the screen from blanking as it interfers with lockvs, a locking screensaver. Anyone know how to do it.
Sean
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StarTux wrote:
setterm -blank 0
man setterm
Yes and no. The confusing thing about screen blanking is that there are two different agents in control of it, and which one handles it depends on whether you're within X or not. In console mode, setterm does it (as you correctly point out); but in X, xset does it. And if you're running KDE, I believe that the xset settings are overridden by the ones in the KDE Control Center. Paul
Originally to: StarTux Hello StarTux. 21 Jun 01 11:54, StarTux wrote to all: Many thanks, will put that into the main profile file :) Sean S> setterm -blank 0 S> man setterm S> Matt S> -- S> "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves." S> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Sean Rima wrote:
Originally to: All
Hello everybody.
I have tried to find it in the SuSE manuals but no joy. I want to prevent the screen from blanking as it interfers with lockvs, a locking screensaver. Anyone know how to do it.
Sean
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From Sean Rima to suse-linux-e@suse.com about [SLE] Stopping the screen...:
Originally to: All
Hello everybody.
I have tried to find it in the SuSE manuals but no joy. I want to prevent the screen from blanking as it interfers with lockvs, a locking screensaver. Anyone know how to do it.
I think xset s off #should do the trick.
Sean
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dieter wrote:
From Sean Rima to suse-linux-e@suse.com about [SLE] Stopping the screen...:
Originally to: All
Hello everybody.
I have tried to find it in the SuSE manuals but no joy. I want to prevent the screen from blanking as it interfers with lockvs, a locking screensaver. Anyone know how to do it.
I think xset s off #should do the trick.
If he's using KDE, then it can be done from the KDE Control Center more easily and reliably. But screen blanking can occur even in console mode, though I don't remember how to tweak that. Yet another possibility is that Sean's BIOS is set to do screen blanking after some interval. If so, that will override everything else. Paul
Originally to: dieter Hello dieter. 21 Jun 01 21:12, dieter wrote to all:
I have tried to find it in the SuSE manuals but no joy. I want to prevent the screen from blanking as it interfers with lockvs, a locking screensaver. Anyone know how to do it.
d> I think d> xset s off #should do the trick. Ain't got that one :) Sean
Sean
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