Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:50:08 GMT Bill Marcum <marcumbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 2008-07-21, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|> I sure hope it isn't a case of some magic subset and in a specific order that
|> is required to do this. There should be a setting somewhere that controls
|> how long with no input before blanking or running the screen saver. Maybe if
|> that value is set to 0 it would disable.
|>
|> I'm also finding that on text console, this command that should prevent the
|> blanking there, sometimes does not (e.g. sometimes it blanks out anyway):
|>
|> setterm -blank 0
|>
|> I also tried this inside xterm to see if xterm would "know what to do". No
|> such luck.
|>
| If the monitor itself has a menu, you might be able to disable power
| saving there.

It's not the power saving I'm trying to disabled. The screen goes blank/black.
I want the image (weather radar) to stay on the screen all the time. Imagine
it as a kiosk or as a video feeder to a cable TV weather radar channel (which
reminds of me of a few times I have seen a MS Windows blue screen on some
cable text channels).

Just an idea: Could you send a periodic keyboard event, e.g. with
xvkbd or maybe with expect?

--
Niklaus
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