[kde-linux] Why is it so difficult to disable a screensaver?

[James Loughner]

I have seen this too (kernel screen blanker) and would love to know
where to turn this off globally. using setterm only turns it off  in the
current instance of term.

It effects me mostly if I position the mouse at one of the corner
(suspending KDE screen saver [I hae that configured]) so I can watch a
long video/movie. If no mouse activity the screen banks after about 10
minutes.

Oddly enough this does not happen if the KDE Screen saver is active or I
happen to have a VMWare Server instance on the current screen.

Running Suse 10.2

Jim

Gaffer. wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:13, Robin Pedersen wrote:
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>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Gaffer. <derrick_s at tesco.net> wrote:
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>>> Hi Robin,
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>   
>>> Bearing in mind that the components of the operating system have to
>>> try and work with these built in power management functions its not
>>> surprising that its difficult to override them.
>>>       
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>   
>> If I boot to runlevel 3, and run `setterm -blank 0`, the screen never
>> blacks out. So, to repeat what I've written several times in this
>> thread: it's not the BIOS.
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