On Thursday 14 May 2015 05:05:09 andy pugh wrote: > On 14 May 2015 at 01:16, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Screen blankers are a PITA, so where does one shut those off > > forever? > > I am tempted to say "you can't". > > Just about the only way that I have found is a shell script that execs > "xset -dpms"
I can put that in a hourly cron script. X historically has a poor memory about that setting. Something like 33 * * * * * xset -dpms Done. > A screen blanker is especially annoying with a touch screen CNC > machine. Pressing a random button on the screen to wake it up is a > special kind of dangerous. It does seem to be a way to temp fate, thats for sure. I have the other end of that problem on this machine, it forgets those settings so I have a script that refreshes the dpms stuff hourly here. That bug has been so long in X I can't recall when I didn't have that entry in my user crontab. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
