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Re: Kernel (?) screen blanking



On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote:

> Hi...
> 
> Whenever I leave the console for what seems like 10 minutes or so, the
> screen goes blank. Not in power-down because the monitor doesn't support
> that, but it just goes blank. Happened in X too, when I had it installed.
> Does anyone know how to configure/disable this?

setterm -blank [0-60] ; setting this to 0 disables blanking.

It's a bit more complicated in X, but take a look at 'man xset'.

Bob

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