Re: prevent debian from sleeping
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:29:36PM +0200, Siard wrote:
> 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.
I thought, from reading a previous email, that xset s off disabled the
screensaver, I wasn't talking about the 'xset' command per se, or am I
misunderstanding you?
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