Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 18 Jul 2008 in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.x, in article
<g5q69o01oai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:

|>| phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:

|>|> I want to have X Windows stop blanking out the screen after some
|>|> idle time. I've tried things like "xset s 0 0" and "xset s
|>|> noblank", but this seems to have no effect towards my goal. I want
|>|> to have the original screen just stay on there indefinitely. I
|>|> don't want it to switch to a screensaver, either.

|> And it still has no effect. Any other ideas to try?

| Is KDE or GNOME responsible for the "blanking"?

I doubt it. It happens without them as a desktop environment. I'm
using fvwm. But I could try KDE for a while.

How are you starting fvwm? Are you booting into some windoze run-level,
or are you logging in via text mode, and then running 'startx' or 'runx'?

Each desktop has their own whizzy way of running a screen-saver, but few
of them do so _uncommanded_ or by default. Figure out how to get to a
command line, and run the command 'ps afuwx' and look to see where
the window manager is being started. Then look at that application,
or script, and see what options you are passing to the window manager.
In my case, the last line of the 'startx' script reads

xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs -nolisten tcp

and it's setting those two variables by reading the contents of

userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc

If you are booting into a GUI mode directly, the display manager (gdm,
kdm, wdm, or xdm would be likely names) have similar lines in their
setup files. See the man page for the appropriate application.

Old guy
.

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