On Friday 05 April 2019 09:08:33 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-05 06:03 (UTC-0400): > > On Friday 05 April 2019 04:09:55 Felix Miata wrote: > >> Were you running MC in TDE? Have you set its screen power save to > >> maximum 120 minutes (as I do)? > > > > MC has no such option. TDE I haven't checked yet. But PI sure > > wouldn't think its defaults would be such a disaster > > I didn't mean MC has any blanking option. I meant starting TDE > session, then in Konsole or directly opening MC. > > >> Have you tried anything like xorg.conf for dpms? e.g. > > > > The monitor was not turned off, just blanked with a blinking cursor. > > And no response from the keyboard or mouse, as if the wireless usb > > rx dongles had all been turned off. > > When this happens to me, I first check for freeze by toggling NUM.
Hadn't thought of that, no tally for that on a log. K-360 but caps lock doesn't enable/disable that indicator. AIUI, that keystroke goes to the computer, and the led on off comes back. So my assumption is that usb is disabled when blanked. But since I have the blinking underline cursor, I wouldn't call it blanked either. But since its only happened twice, and I finally got twm to run the windows instead of lightdm running xfce4, it may not happen again. > Next I unplug and replug mouse and try again. Wireless I don't > routinely use for anything. My hands are glitchy enough without > glitchy wireless mice to compound poor pointer control. My usb dongles are on the end of an extention cable, within a 10cm of both the keyboard and the mouse, Poor pointer control is not a problem. Keeping batteries in the mouse is. And getting ancient fingers to hit the correct keys is the biggest problem by far. :) I do use a lot of usb here but thats the extent of usb+wireless. I even have all the radios turned off due to a neighbor's cell phone that can hack into an active radio and use 80gb of my bandwidth a month, and do it 2 seconds after I enable the radio, but I do enable the radios so my visiting boys can use their $800 cell phones while visiting. 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>