Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

["Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:07, Manon Metten <manon.metten@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
>>> Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking
>>> or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up
>>> only when I hit the keyboard.
>
>> searching a bit, it seems like if you're using xscreensaver,
>> increasing 'pointerHysteresis' a whole bunch might do the
>> trick.[1]
>
> Actually, I'm using KDE's built-in screensaver.
> But switching to xscreensaver and increasing pointerHysteresis
> like you suggested, might be an option.

Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome
screensavers.

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde
http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers