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Jean-David Beyer

2007-07-17, 1:14 am

I am running RHEL5, and the screen goes black after about 15 minutes even
though the run-level 5 screen saver is setup to wait 1 hour and 2 minutes
and then display a non-black screensaver. My guess is that in addition to
the screensaver that I have consciously set up in GNOME, there may be
another one running on my terminal at a console level? Is this possible? How
would I configure it to not be applied when running at run level 5; i.e.,
when I am running metacity and GNOME?

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art2u

2007-07-17, 1:14 am

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:19:08 +0000, Jean-David Beyer wrote:

> I am running RHEL5, and the screen goes black after about 15 minutes
> even though the run-level 5 screen saver is setup to wait 1 hour and 2
> minutes and then display a non-black screensaver. My guess is that in
> addition to the screensaver that I have consciously set up in GNOME,
> there may be another one running on my terminal at a console level? Is
> this possible? How would I configure it to not be applied when running
> at run level 5; i.e., when I am running metacity and GNOME?


try: xscreensaver-demo from console.

-Art- (not Art)


Jean-David Beyer

2007-07-17, 7:13 am

art2u wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:19:08 +0000, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
> try: xscreensaver-demo from console.
>

xscreensaver-demo does not exist on my system.


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Scott Lurndal

2007-07-23, 7:13 pm

Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> writes:
>I am running RHEL5, and the screen goes black after about 15 minutes even
>though the run-level 5 screen saver is setup to wait 1 hour and 2 minutes
>and then display a non-black screensaver. My guess is that in addition to
>the screensaver that I have consciously set up in GNOME, there may be
>another one running on my terminal at a console level? Is this possible? How
>would I configure it to not be applied when running at run level 5; i.e.,
>when I am running metacity and GNOME?
>


Type

bash$ xset q
...
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On
...

use

bash$ xset -dpms

to turn it off if desired.

scott
Jean-David Beyer

2007-07-23, 7:13 pm

Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> writes:
>
> Type
>
> bash$ xset q
> ...
> DPMS (Energy Star):
> Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
> DPMS is Enabled
> Monitor is On
> ...



>
> use
>
> bash$ xset -dpms
>
> to turn it off if desired.
>

Do I do it once and for all? Or do I put it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bashprofile?


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Scott Lurndal

2007-07-24, 1:14 am

Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> writes:
>Scott Lurndal wrote:
>
>
>Do I do it once and for all? Or do I put it in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bashprofile?
>


/etc/profile, ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.kshrc wherever works for you. Probably
only want to do it if DISPLAY is set:

[[ -n "${DISPLAY}" ]] && xset -dpms


scott
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