On Fri, April 13, 2007 1:54 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 4/13/07, John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The screensaver on one user's box is killing X. I can't use the control >> panel to disable it, because it looks like the control panel starts a >> preview or something that instantly kills X. What config file controls >> screensavers? .xscreensaver has a whole lot of weird options to, >> apparantly, control screensavers, but no enable/disable feature. >> > > $ ps -ef | grep screensaver # see if it xscreensaver or > gnome-screensaver or whatever > # pkill xscreensaver # kill the screensaver daemon > > This should do it for the initial shot. > > The right way to do it is to edit $HOME/.xscreensaver, look for the > line that starts mode: > and change the word at the end of the line to off. >
When you do get in there, do _not_ allow random selection. At least one of the Gnome choices (I forget which) repeatably locked my machine. Blank screen is safest (and least sexy). -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
