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Re: Turn Off Screen Saver



On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 03:21:52PM BST, Paul Nulandorn wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 10:13 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Paul Nulandorn
> > <paul.nulandorn@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > You don't tell us what display manager you're using, but there's
> > probably a "power management" function which is turning the screen off
> > after a period of idleness.
> 
> I'm using gnome 2.30.2. 
> 
> I checked the power management settings and the screen saver is disabled
> there also.

What you're seeing is not the screen saver (since you've disabled it)
but the screen goes blank after a period of inactivity - this is
controlled by a power management software, in your example that would
be GNOME Power Manager [0]. I don't use Gnome so can't help you with
it I'm afraid.

A generic way to disable screen going blank would be to use xset.

% xset s off

[0] http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-power-manager/

Cheers,
-- 
rjc


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