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Re: prevent debian from sleeping



Chris Bannister wrote:
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > I start the x server with startx and have no desktop environment,
> > and have simply this in my window manager (fluxbox) startup file:
> > 
> >   xset s off
> >   xset -dpms
> 
> Correct me if I'm being a bit dim, but why have a screensaver
> installed if it is deactivated each time you start the GUI? I would
> suggest a saner way would be to purge the screensaver from the system.

xset, which is not a screensaver AFAIK, is provided by x11-xserver-utils.
By uninstalling that, you also loose a bunch of other utils such as
xmodmap, xrandr, xrdb, xsetroot, xvidtune.


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