Re: disable Screen saver
XFree86 has a default screen blanking function.
In version 4.1 this is set with the BlankTime option in section Serverflags.
See man XF86Config-4 for further info.
Note that this value may be overruled by your windowmanager (or a screensaver
if you had one installed).
On Thursday 26 September 2002 13:22, Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" wrote:
> I am running Debian unstable. The UI is handled by a mix of Gnome 1.4
> and wmaker.
>
> My screen gets black if I don't touch the mouse for a while. This
> prevents me from looking at DVDs on my laptop.
> I tried to find a screen saver installed on my machine but couldn't find
> any.
>
> Some of the things I tried:
> 'dpkg -l | grep -i saver' returns nothing
> 'locate saver' nothing as well
> 'apropos saver' only returns beforelight but this one is not running.
> searched the /etc/X11 files without luck
>
> Is there a default screen saver hidden somewhere I have to turn off?
>
> Cheers
>
> jerome
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