Re: X crashes if I'm idle
Incoming from Doyle, Patrick:
> Thank you for your quick reply....
>
> > Incoming from Doyle, Patrick:
> > > I found this thread in the archives, and I am experiencing the same
> > > behavior (on my Compaq Presario 2100 with a stock "woody" bf2.4
> > > install). I have also seen that I cannot run KDE -- it
> > > simply crashes during startup. From everything I've read, I
> > > probably need to upgrade to Xfree86 4.3 in order to make these
> > > problems go away, but I have some questions first.
> > >
> > > 1) In the short term (I need to get work done _today_ and
> > > can't spend the day upgrading X), how can I turn off the
> > > screensaver? I don't see any menu
>
> > I don't use kde, but doesn't a right-click on the background
> > bring up anything useful?
> >
> Sadly no, this is why I am so confused. I just can't find the right knob to
Sorry for misreading your post. You can't run kde; what are you
running? By "screensaver", do you perhaps mean "screenblanker?" Try
"setterm -blank 0"
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