On Tuesday 22 October 2002 18:55, you wrote:
> When I type that in, it comes back with 'true' at the console.  Then, I go
> to Configure Desktop and the screensaver is still enabled.  After waiting
> 10 minutes, the screen goes blank.


that's screenblanking (not related to your screensaver) of your X server 
(default 10 min.). This option can be set with 'xset'. See man pages of 
XF86Config and xset for this. I think the DPMS option maybe also turns off 
screenblanking?



>
> But, from that link I sent, it showed editing the rc file for kde to add
> the line Enabled = false under the ScreenSaver section and then use dcop to
> force a rc reload.  I did that manually and it worked.  Now I just gotta
> get a script written to do it for me....
>
> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:45 pm, zephod wrote:
> > It does disable the KDE screensaver. I use it for watching DVD's with
> > mplayer.
> >
> > On Monday 21 October 2002 23:14, Barry Michels wrote:
> > > All that does is return the word 'true', but it doesn't actually do
> > > anything...
> > >
> > > On Monday 21 October 2002 01:53 pm, zephod wrote:
> > > > try this:
> > > >
> > > > dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable 'false'
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > >
> > > > Z
> > > >
> > > > On Sunday 20 October 2002 20:33, Barry Michels wrote:
> > > > > I'd like to write a script that would turn off the screensaver
> > > > > before launching xawtv and re-enable it when I close the program.



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