Re: screenblanker vs login
On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:34:44 Wookey wrote:
> On 2018-02-05 12:12 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > How do I shut the screenblanker off on an arm64.
>
> It's no different on arm than any other arch SFAIK. This is probably a
> debian-user question really.
>
> > I have looked around in the xfce menu's looking for blanker timing
> > and such, but they aren't there. xset gets reset to its defaults ,
> > which is way too fast, on a reboot.
> >
> > So how do I completely disable this so I can actually get something
> > done? 450 seconds is not enough to get logged in even.
>
> You can set screen blank times for XFCE in 'Settings'->'Power
> Manager', 'Display tab. or run xfce4-power-manager-settings. There
> you can set times, or just tell it not to blank or power-down at all.
>
> It is possible that you _also_ have something like xscreensaver
> installed, whcih may be trying to manage the screen too. You can just
> uninstall that.
>
> > And nothing related to ssh works until xfce is up and running.
>
> The openssh dameon is independent of the desktop and will start
> first. If you don't start the desktop ssh should still work.
>
> Wookey
None of that is any real help with the problem, which is once locked, not
even John the ripper can find a working password to let you back in.
But I did fix it, with my usual damn the topedo's attitude, I removed the
exec perms from both of the light-locker utilities, and killed those in
memory. Now the blanker kicks in but does not invoke dpms to turn the
monitor off (I won't say it ever did) , and I can walk back over to it,
touch the mouse or the spacebar on the keyboard, and I am instantly
looking at a screen ready to go back to work. Sure beats having to hit
the reset to reboot it in the middle of a longer job, like building a
realtime kernel.
dpms, FWIW, doesn't work on a jessie install on a pi-3b either. The
blanker does blank, but does not power down the monitor.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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