On 14.05.15 06:03, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
Don't know if it'd be needed, but if you ever need to turn off only the screen saver, then ### (below) seems to do the job: $ xset s on # So we have one to turn off. $ xset q # Query all the xset guff. ... Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 600 cycle: 600 $ xset s off # Disable it. <<<====### $ xset q ... Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 600 I.e Off, but timer still running. And after a while: $ xset q ... Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 The thing's timed out as well as being disabled. It is also possible to use: $ xset s noblank but I think that causes it to switch in screensaver video, which isn't what we want. (That bit's untested) Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
