Lan Barnes wrote:
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).
My solution was to disable Gnome. The KDE screen saver works just fine.
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