Re: Screen Saver

Rashkae wrote:
Rashkae wrote:

Ray Parrish wrote:


MY attitude??? Really long thread??? I just started this thread
yesterday, and not that many suggestions have been given or tried. I
have seen people on this group jumped on for posting solutions to
problems they had without asking a question, and being accused of
blogging for it. Frankly I think posts of that type are useful as they
provide solutions to problems that someone else might have sometime.


<Snip>

Hint: man xset

xset q

And now,, *plonk*



For the sake of everyone else who has been reading this thread, I'll
explain. Forgive my rudeness, I can be a little termpermental. (I'm
sure some of you have noticed by now)

Ray's problem is truely the greatest irony. His very first post
explained it, but it's been so long since most of us have used X without
the comfort of gnome, the implications went right over everyone's head.

For as long as I can remember, it has been X's default to blank the
screen after 10 minutes of inactivity. This is not done by any
screensaver program, it's just a built in default with X.

You can view this with the command 'xset q'. You can disable the
behaviour with 'xset s 0' to change the default 600 seconds to 0 (disabled)

Now, gentle readers, you may be wondering, if this is a default with X,
why doesn't my screen go blank after 10 minutes? The reason is that
there is a gnome component that overwrites default X settings. What
gnome component you ask? Gnome-screensaver, that is, until Ray
completely disabled it from within gconf.


Ahhhh! Thanks for the additional information. I didn't know my fiddling
around inside gconfig editor would have that affect. It had settings for
the screen saver, and I thought they would access the same settings as
the the gui screensaver dialog, now I know better.

Once again, thanks for solving my problem Rashkae, and also for
educating me on Linux, I didn't even know there was an xset command.
Little by little every day I am learning. 8-) And thanks for knowledge
of the alternate command of "xset s 0", I used "xset s off" which worked
for me.

Plonk me anytime you want, at least you knew where to point me. 8-)

Later, Ray Parrish

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