On 04/12/2018 03:16 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700 >> Wolfgang S Rupprecht <wolfgang.rupprecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and >>> you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how >>> that would work from rc.local. How would I tell it to do that to all >>> the vt's? (I tried the stdin and stdout as redirection targets but it >>> didn't seem to work.) >> >> A quick search turned up these pages, which should get you a little >> further on your journey. >> >> https://superuser.com/questions/152347/change-linux-console-screen-blanking-behavior >> >> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8056/disable-screen-blanking-on-text-console > > Thanks. Those are both 7 years old and things appear to have changed > much. > > [wolfgang@arbol ~]$ setterm -blank 600 > setterm: argument error: 600 > > Not only is the "-blank" missing but I believe it applies to the current > tty. That would make it difficult to slip into /etc/rc.local . The option is "--blank" (two dashes, as are most multicharacter command line options) and the maximum value allowed is 60 (this is in minutes), with 0 meaning "don't blank at all". And yes, it's for the current VT. I know of no way of forcing it onto other VTs, and I still really don't see a reason to need to change it unless you're watching a terminal for output for some reason. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say... oh, somewhere in there. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
