Re: Simple little basic config questions

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Haines Brown(brownh@hartford-hwp.com) is reported to have said:
> > > My next question has to do with disabling screen blanking and power
> > > saving under X. This also may be the result of moving into a somewhat
> > > different setup when I moved from RedHat to debian.
> > > 
> > > I had added to ~/.Xclients:
> > > 
> > >   xset s off 
> > >   xset -dpms
> > > 
> > > But now that is having no effect.
> > 
> > see the man page at
> > /usr/X11R6/man/man5/XF86Config-4.5x.gz
> 
> I hadn't remembered that BlankTime, StandbyTimes, SuspendTime and
> OffTime could be set in this config file. 

I didn't know that either as I don't use them myself.
> 
> But as the man page points out, the xset commands can be set at "run
> time." Does that mean run time for x server? If so, where would the
> xset command be put? Do you think I could put them into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc ? Doing it this way seems a lot
> cleaner than plugging in enormous numbers of minutes for each of the
> ServerFlags options in XF86Config. 
> 

To answer your questions I have been looking at the man pages,
readme's and XFree86 Howto's.  May you should look into them for your
answers?

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You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of
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