Re: How to change screen-blanking time
I assume this is solely for the console? I was never aware of this
option myself, but in X i use xset -- something to the effect of
xset s 1800 2600 3200
in my .xsessions file in $HOME
Shawn
--- Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org> wrote:
> Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu> writes:
>
> > Recently my machine (pentium, linux kernel 2.4.18, sarge), used
> > used to blank after 5 min, suddenly stopped blanking. I looked
> > around and found that I could set it with setterm -blank time.
> > This presumable would have to be done everytime one booted. In
> any
> > case, I found that when I rebooted the problem had vanished, but
> > I would still like to know how one sets the blank time
> permanently in
> > some file. Where is this information held? I have not been able
> to
> > find this from any of the man pages or the Oreilly Linux book.
>
> Include the command "setterm -blank 5" (or whatever time you
> want) in your .bash_profile. (This assumes you're running bash.
> Substitute the appropriate start-up file for another shell.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob
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