On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
After all that, I ended up having to add some stuff to /etc/X11/xorg.conf because of fglrx/ATI issues: Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection It would be awesome to have a [screensaver] object that worked on all platforms, so you could just hook up a toggle to it and control the screensaver... I whipped up some rough, simple versions:
Is that all you have to do nowadays ?
I think that back in 2003 or so, I had to hunt down four settings in four different places, one as a "xset s off" command, one as "killall xscreensaver" (or the equivalent in a dialogue), one as... perhaps another "xset" command about dpmi, and then there was a BIOS setting.
I overlooked one of the four settings, and it was a big shame, as a gallery employee had to come in several times per hour to press any key.
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