Re: X dies while I'm not looking...
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:08:01PM -0500, Charles Sebold wrote:
> On 15 Nisan 5761, David J. Roundy wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if this is powerpc-specific, or not, but I have a
> > somewhat annoying issue where X will die if I stop using it for a
> > while (e.g. leave the room or work on a virtual terminal). It does
> > this whether I am just sitting in kdm or if I'm logged in under X,
> > and seems to happen every ten minutes if I'm not using X. It has
> > been happening for weeks, but only recently did it happen while I
> > was logged in on X, since usually I don't stay on X if I'm not using
> > it.
>
> Had this problem myself; looks like the screen blanking code isn't
> working. Fixed it by either running an active screensaver or using
> the built-in blanking, and I also put this in my .xinitrc (probably
> different for you since you use a display manager):
>
> xset -dpms s noblank
That was it. Thanks a ton! I just added the above line to my
/etc/X11/kdm/Xsetup_0, and everything runs beautifully. :)
--
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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