Re: How to change screen-blanking time

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu> writes:

>   Recently my machine (pentium, linux kernel 2.4.18, sarge), used
>   used to blank after 5 min, suddenly stopped blanking. I looked
>   around and found that I could set it with setterm -blank time.
>   This presumable would have to be done everytime one booted. In any
>   case, I found that when I rebooted the problem had vanished, but
>   I would still like to know how one sets the blank time permanently in
>   some file. Where is this information held? I have not been able to
>   find this from any of the man pages or the Oreilly Linux book.

     Include the command "setterm -blank 5" (or whatever time you
want) in your .bash_profile.  (This assumes you're running bash.
Substitute the appropriate start-up file for another shell.)

Regards,

Bob
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