On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:34:44 Wookey wrote: > On 2018-02-05 12:12 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > How do I shut the screenblanker off on an arm64. > > It's no different on arm than any other arch SFAIK. This is probably a > debian-user question really. > > > I have looked around in the xfce menu's looking for blanker timing > > and such, but they aren't there. xset gets reset to its defaults , > > which is way too fast, on a reboot. > > > > So how do I completely disable this so I can actually get something > > done? 450 seconds is not enough to get logged in even. > > You can set screen blank times for XFCE in 'Settings'->'Power > Manager', 'Display tab. or run xfce4-power-manager-settings. There > you can set times, or just tell it not to blank or power-down at all. > > It is possible that you _also_ have something like xscreensaver > installed, whcih may be trying to manage the screen too. You can just > uninstall that. > > > And nothing related to ssh works until xfce is up and running. > > The openssh dameon is independent of the desktop and will start > first. If you don't start the desktop ssh should still work. > > Wookey
None of that is any real help with the problem, which is once locked, not even John the ripper can find a working password to let you back in. But I did fix it, with my usual damn the topedo's attitude, I removed the exec perms from both of the light-locker utilities, and killed those in memory. Now the blanker kicks in but does not invoke dpms to turn the monitor off (I won't say it ever did) , and I can walk back over to it, touch the mouse or the spacebar on the keyboard, and I am instantly looking at a screen ready to go back to work. Sure beats having to hit the reset to reboot it in the middle of a longer job, like building a realtime kernel. dpms, FWIW, doesn't work on a jessie install on a pi-3b either. The blanker does blank, but does not power down the monitor. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
