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

[James Loughner]

Well it does  not work here. It does not turn off this blanking app
where ever and what ever it is. BTW Just tried the xorg.confg mod

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
    Option         "BlankTime" "0"
EndSection

stop and restarted X

According to the setterm docs setting to zero should stop the blanker

This did not work either no change in blanking behavior or the timing of
it. About 10 min

As I noted the blanking does not happen if the KDE screen saver kick in
first. So I guess that the screen saver must somehow know how to turn
this off.

Jim



James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Robin Pedersen wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:15 PM, James Loughner <jwrl at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> Are you sure about this? I did this:
>> 1. Logged in on tty1, and run setterm
>> 2. Logged out
>> 3. Changed to tty2, and logged in
>> 4. Left the computer alone, without getting a blank screen
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by "current instance of term". How did you
>> get a blank screen after calling setterm?
>>
>>     
>
> That would be 'current instance of console'.  The console is software 
> and the terminals are hardware (although in this case they are virtual 
> hardware).
>
> IIUC after reading the fine man page.  This command should set the 
> option for the console running on all virtual terminals -- it is only 
> for virtual terminals and would have no effect on real hardware terminals.
>
>