[wellylug] screen blanking

[Chris Hodgetts]

Did a bit of a google search for you..

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4. If I'm idle for about 10 minutes, my screen turns black, how do I
turn that off or start a screen saver?

To disable blanking for the text consoles: setterm -blank 0

To disable X server screen blanking: xset s off

To get a (great!) screensaver for X, install the xscreensaver package and
add the following to your ~/.xsession (for XDM) or equivalent for startx
(.xinitrc?  not sure what Debian uses):
 
 xset s off
 xscreensaver &

These lines should precede the one that execs your window manager.
My .xsession is:

 
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#!/bin/sh

xset s off
xscreensaver &
exec fvwm2

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Let me know if thats what you are meaning :)..

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 19:42 -0700, Brent Wood wrote:
> A Linux PC running KDE, no KDE screensaver enabled, but the screen is blanking
> after about 5 minutes. A keypress or mouse move un-blanks it.
> 
> Screen blanking is disabled in BIOS, no screensaver in KDE that I can find...
> 
> Any ideas on what might be blanking it? Some X setting I know nothing about?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Brent
> 
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