On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Kevin Fitzgerald wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a site in Qld with some computer illiterate people running it.
> Whenever the screensaver kicks in (RH7.3) the machine freezes. I want to
> log in via SSH and stop the screensaver from starting but I cant seem to
> find out how.
>
> I have gone into .xscreensaver in the users Home directory and set the
> timeout to 0:00 as the MAN page suggested but it did not work. Can
> anyone else suggest another way to do this?
rpm --erase xscreensaver
It'll probably whinge about control-center needing it, that's arse about
in my opinion, xscreensaver needs control-center to configure it so yeah
add --nodeps
Only thing of note is when the user logs in they'll get an error saying
xscreensaver couldn't be run - that's good, click ok.
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