Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?
On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote:
> For xfce, you might try this:
>
> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart
> Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver.
Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchecking all the
blankers and setting the times north of 10 hours, which if that works,
is tolerable for the application.
>
> There may be additional things you need to do to make sure session
> stuff isn't loading screensavers through some other mechanism (i.e,
> squirreled away in a saved session or something). For that you might
> need to explicitly exit the screensaver (either through Settings
> Manager > Screensaver or a command line like xscreensaver-command
> -exit)
>
> And you likely need the xset stuff you already did on top of that.
>
> Of course, all of that is assuming you are using xscreensaver.
>
> ps -ef | grep screensave
>
> might be useful if the above doesn't work out for you.
>
> mrc
>
> PS: I dropped emc-users. I think the netiquette these days is to NOT
> post to multiple email groups, as it is likely a respondent isn't
> subscribed to all of them.
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