Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?
On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:12:56 Dan Ritter wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the
> > screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until
> > we have wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back
> > in can be quite dangerous when the machine has a runaway. Anything
> > we do with xset is overridden before the 10 minute timeout is done.
> >
> > Some of us like xfce4, please advise how to permanently disable
> > lightdm and its light-locker. _Forever_. We do know how to turn off
> > the monitor at the end of the day.
>
> I would try
>
> apt remove lightdm light-locker
and task-xfce, the meta installer file was also selected
> and either installing xdm or just using startx to get X11 and
> XFCE up when you want it.
Which is for me, 100% of the time, so xdm installed.
> -dsr
did that and installed xdm, reboot is next. But apt claimed there were
several hundred packages (353 count) that could be autoremoved. Is that
normal after an iso install and update to 10.6? I did the autoremove,
linuxcnc still runs, so I think we are in business. 34 minutes after the
reboot:
gene@lathe:~$ uptime
10:42:05 up 34 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.16, 0.44
gene@lathe:~$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: on key click percent: 10 LED mask: 00000002
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: on 02: Scroll Lock: off
03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off
06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off
09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off
12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off
auto repeat delay: 594 repeat rate: 14
auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
fadfffefffedffff
9fffffffffffffff
fff7ffffffffffff
bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 0
Colors:
default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0x0 WhitePixel: 0xffffff
Font Path:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 450 Suspend: 600 Off: 900
DPMS is Disabled
I believe thats what we wanted.
The above now shows blanking off, expose on, and DPMS off after the
reboot and no one has yet logged in locally, looks good.
Thanks a bunch, Dan
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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