I wanted screen blanking turned right off.
The control panel had the screensaver off,
but it was still blanking out.
There were no setting; in the control panels
to let me do this. I was stuck...
Now, I've been using Linux since 1993 and its
only recently that I started using KDE/Gnome.
Its amazing how quickly they have lulled me into thinking
in terms of 'control panel applets' to do these things.
Maybe its 'natural'.
But it certainly clouded my mind when it came to figuring
out that I had to use xset...
Maybe some docco explaining this sort of thing,
to educate the newbies and to jog the memory
of the likes of me?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hoyt
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] The Openess of Mandrake - a wish list
>
>
> >
> > On that note I challenge those that are complaining to find a better
> > distribution with more features and the openess that can be found with
> > MandrakeSoft. My sincerest thanks for the team at Mandrake for
> putting out
> > what is IMHO the best and most up to date distribution to date.
> Good luck to
> > fellow cookers on finding and squashing all the bugs for the next great
> > release! =)
> >
> > -Tim McKenzie
>
>
> I have to agree with Tim, but I would like to know:
>
> What parts of Mandrake's way of doing things (implementing
> certain functions, etc.) need to be documented better for the
> benefit of the community? Maybe: How the different levels of
> security differ and are implemented? How automount is implemented
> and manipulated? What patches are applied to the stock kernel?
>
> Anything like this? Perhaps with a wishlist of these things (if
> there are any), volunteers could provide useful documentation of
> these things if they do not already exist.
>
> Hoyt
>
>
