Re: How to get X Windows to stop blanking out

On 2008-07-25, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:37:27 -0500 nobody <annonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 2008-07-24, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> On 23 Jul 2008 13:38:46 GMT Niklaus Kuehnis <kuehnik_0505@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>| 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?
|>
|> I don't know what xvkbd is. How would expect send a keyboard event? If I
|> stuff one in to an xterm pty it won't be seen by X as an input, but only as
|> xterm output. I have tried stuffing keyboard events into /dev/tty10 but the
|> X server running on tty10 doesn't see it (I'm assuming because it accesses
|> the keyboard at a lower level so it sees the ups and downs, not just the
|> ASCII queue). Maybe I need to write a kernel patch to inject keyboard events
|> at a lower level (e.g. key scan code and up/down).
|>
|> But I still think it is better to identify what bit of code in some component
|> of the X window system is futzing with the screen blanking and make it stop.
|>
| Have you checked the "/etc/sysconfig/powersave/....." to see if any of the
| scripts is doing the blanking?; expecially when not using gnome or kde.

/etc/sysconfig: No such file or directory

I've never seen Slackware create any such directory. Is that an X thing?

Even this command comes up empty: find /etc /var -print | fgrep -i sysconfig


Guess "/etc/sysconfig" is a SuSE thing.. & not what other distributions
do. Would imagine even "X" will be different for the various distros..
.

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