On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

After all that, I ended up having to add some stuff to /etc/X11/ xorg.conf because of fglrx/ATI issues:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection
It would be awesome to have a [screensaver] object that worked on all platforms, so you could just hook up a toggle to it and control the screensaver... I whipped up some rough, simple versions:

Is that all you have to do nowadays ?

I think that back in 2003 or so, I had to hunt down four settings in four different places, one as a "xset s off" command, one as "killall xscreensaver" (or the equivalent in a dialogue), one as... perhaps another "xset" command about dpmi, and then there was a BIOS setting.

I overlooked one of the four settings, and it was a big shame, as a gallery employee had to come in several times per hour to press any key.


Well, I did do other things, but it was the final thing that actually seemed to work. Perhaps I needed to do all of them. I also did:

xset s off
apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
(set the screensaver and power management prefs to none)

That's why it would be awesome to have this all in a simple-to-use [screensaver] object. I added some more stuff to my [gnome- screensaver] object:

Attachment: gnome-screensaver.pd
Description: Binary data




.hc


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