On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 06:35:38 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harald Richard Ashburner) wrote:
<SNIP> > Hi Alan, > Stab in the dark, are you running xscreensaver? > if so, have a look at your $HOME/.xscreensaver file > the first four entries are the interesting ones. I can't remember > which, but one of these was set to 2 minutes, so I upped it to 10 > hours and haven't had a problem since. > setting it to zero might disable it altogether, not sure. > > > timeout: 10:00:00 > cycle: 0:01:00 > lock: False > lockTimeout: 10:00:00 > > I think it might have been "lockTimeout 00:02:00 or something I > remember trying to see if it was a gui setting and not finding one > until I saw it in the file. > > But this may not be your problem at all. Sigh - thanks for the effort, but no .xscreensaver. I only installed this system two days ago and I have never had any experience with Debian (love it though!). I'm very happy with the whole installation except for this one nagging problem. Thanks, A > Best of luck. > -- > Kind regards, > Hal Ashburner > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
