Jean-Yves F. Barbier schrieb: > jam a écrit : >> On Thursday 28 February 2008 05:15:37 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I've got 2.5 questions about LTSP, GDM and DPMS: >>> >>> The server xorg.xonf have a ServerFlags section with the 3 DPMS parms >>> set at 3min; the monitor section has a Option "DPMS" "on" line. >>> >>> Q1: The server screen switch off (totally) after 10min; why not 3? >>> >>> Q2: The LTSP stations switch off (blank ONLY) after 10min: >>> why not 3 and why only DPMS'blanking? >>> >>> I've search a lot, but most of people wanted to turn DPMS off, not on. >>> >>> I also tried to add: BackgroundProgram=xset +dpms 3 3 3 >>> but the wasn't any result. >>> >>> Could somebody tell me how to make what I want working? >> If they did as ubuntu folk did then there is lots of fiddling: > > unfortunately yes (in fact ubuntu is copying debian:) > >> * The easy way: Login and set your preferences and power setting preferences >> >> * the hard way: use gconf editor and keep track of what/where and when they >> change >> >> If you use kde setup with kde settings >> >> If you use icewm (or presumably other window manages, not desktops) THEN the >> xorg.cong settings prevail > > thanks for the tracks I'm gonna test all of that tomorrow > > JY
This seems to be not only a Debian/Ubuntu problem. It appears under Suse as well. And for me, the problem is one of the Display Manager running rather than one of the users' accounts. As long as users are logged in, I feel a blanking of the screen would just be disturbing. So I deactivated all screen-saving and put this into the settings file in /etc/skel for each new user's account to be ruling. But for the display manager, it seems to be impossible to adapt to admin's settings. I tried kdm as well as xdm, both with their individual tweaks, but to no avail. On our old server with an archaic Suse 9.1 I ended up with a solution over several config files and the screens stay on, but on our new server I tried Debian etch, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Suse 10.3 without success yet. A "switch the monitor off" solution would also be sensible as we (as a school) still have CRTs which consume some power. But the screens just go blank which really makes no sense at all. Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
