Greetings all; One of the things I always have to do, usually from another tab of the same terminal window that I run "linuxcnc -l" from, is to remember to also do a "xset -dpms" to shut off the screen blanker & monitor off commands. If I forget (way too easy for me) and the job is a long running job, its frustrating to have to go tap the space bar or wave the mouse around to bring it back to life.
How hard would it be to incorporate that into the successful launch of linuxcnc, issueing an "xset -dpms" as it sits and waits for the exit cleanup, and again at shutdown after the cleanup, by haveing the script /usr/bin/linuxcnc issue a fresh "xset +dpms";"xset dpms time1 time2 time3", where the times might be read from a . file in the users ~/HOME directory? If this needs controlled because some of us never use the blanker in the first place, perhaps a KEYWORD in the .ini file could be used to switch this on/off? Perhaps maximum versatility would be to "dot source" a pair of files, doing nothing if they do not exist? The startup could set really long delays so they would kick in if one just walks away while its running, or the usual short delays when its been shut down. A first glance at /usr/bin/linuxcnc looks like it could be doable, but I haven't a good clue as to exactly where in it to do it. Comments? Suggestions? Thanks all. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
