Re: How to Disable screensaver

[Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Silsbee wrote:
> --- On Mon, 9/29/08, Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > From: Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: How to Disable screensaver
> > To: fredsilsbee@xxxxxxxxx, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 5:27 PM
> >     
> > > screensaver is slightly buried.
> > >   
> > > KDE 4.1 menu->applications->system->system
> > >       
> > settings->left column screensaver
> >     
> > > Under the menu icon lower left, right click on an item
> > >       
> > and select "save to panel"
> >     
> > > I'd still like to know how to make the screensaver
> > >       
> > stay on indefinitely!
> >     
> > > There is some setting in xconfig or one of those
> > >       
> > files!
> >     
> > > Years ago I knew how to do this.
> > >
> > >   
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> > Your efforts to adjust the KDE screen saver can be
> > frustrated by dpms.
> >
> > dpms is normally setup to blank your screen after 10
> > minutes. It will
> > look like the blank screen saver has come on. Dpms is
> > controlled with
> > xset. "xset q" prints a longer report than this.
> > Look for "DPMS" about
> > two thirds of the way down:
> >
> > []$ xset q
> > DPMS (Energy Star):
> > Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
> > DPMS is Enabled
> > Monitor is On
> >
> > This will blank the screen in X in 10 minutes (1200 would
> > be 20 minutes,
> > but in every case, my screns blanked in 10 minutes).
> >
> > []$ xset dpms 0 0 0
> >
> > []$ xset q
> > DPMS (Energy Star):
> > Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
> > DPMS is Enabled
> > Monitor is On
> >
> > I set up a script as ~/.kde/Autostart/dpms000 including:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /bin/sleep 5; /usr/bin/xset dpms 0 0 0
> >
> > The sleep statement was necessary in Fedora and Slackware,
> > but not in
> > Debian. I originally named the script dpms-off, but it
> > would not work in
> > Debian. The xset man page shows other ways to turn off
> > dpms, but they
> > would not work in my machines. Before doing this, the KDE
> > screen saver
> > would work at all, unless I set it to come on in less than
> > ten minutes.
> > If I set the screen saver to come at 5 minutes, it would
> > come for 5
> > minutes, and then the screen went blank. I don't
> > remember this problem
> > before fedora 6 or 7.
> >
> > Incidentally, KDE can be setup with shutdown scripts, also.
> >
> > ~/.kde/shutdown/restoresound :
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > cp /home/bob/sys.setup/sound/kmixctrlrc \
> > /home/bob/.kde/share/config/kmixctrlrc
> >
> > restores my desired Kmix default sound levels when I
> > logout, so there
> > won't be any rude surprises when I next start KDE.
> >
> > Bob
> >     
>
>
> My screensaver KDE 4.1.1 works great using the dialog provided
>
> and with nothing else.
>
> I used kpowersave to allow the screensaver to run indefinitely.
>
> I could not find kpowersave in the lower left icon menus.
>
> I found it at the panel lower right in the form of a little plug.
>
> Whadaya call this section again..it slips my memory
>
>   
Ooops... I had wondered why I was the only one with this problem.

Oh well... At least I learned more about xset.

Bob Barrett

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