default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread tko 
I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory...

The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing
the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable the console default
blanking so that I can use the screen savers instead? Thanks.

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Re: default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread Steve Mayer 
tko,

  setterm -blank 0

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 I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory...
 
 The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing
 the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable the console default
 blanking so that I can use the screen savers instead? Thanks.
 
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Re: default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush 
Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 tko,
 
   setterm -blank 0
 
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  I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my
  memory...  The default screen blanking is shutting off the X
  windows display preventing the long term usage of the screen
  savers. How do I disable the console default blanking so that I can
  use the screen savers instead? Thanks.

No, what you want is xset s off - the setterm line is for text
consoles.  (The blanking of the X screen is not actually the same as
the blanking that happens on text consoles).  While you're looking at
that, you may want to check out xset +dpms - a better blanking for
power-saving monitors.  (test it with xset dpms force standby)  As
always, the man page (for xset) will give you more information.


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