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Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...



On Friday 07 January 2022 03:03:25 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: 
> > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: 
> > > > > Not sure what I'm looking at here...
> > > > 
> > > > No processes with a suitable name.
> > > > 
> > > > Is the "screensaver" showing pictures, or just going black after
> > > > a while?
> > > 
> > > It just goes black.  The inside of the window that virtualbox uses,  that is.  Nothing of the sort happening on the host machine.
> > 
> > Ah-hah.
> > 
> > Inside the virtualbox, run 
> > 
> > xset s off
> > 
> > which will turn off the built-in X11 screen blanker. 
> > 
> > man xset for details.
> > 
> > -dsr-
>  
> Okay,  tried that and we'll see what happens.
> 
> My question,  then,  is what would have turned this on?  It wasn't on before...

That didn't do it,  but apparently xset -dpms did.

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