Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:18:14 -0500 Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 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'?

The system starst in text mode. I run a command to start X. X is configured
to start xdm. I login on the xdm box. Then xdm starts a user login script
that launches fvwm (and other stuff, then execs xlogo so it does not return
to xdm unless I specifically kill xlogo). This is not a KDE/Gnome environment.


| 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.

See above. This is all set up quite different than KDE/Gnome stuff.

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