On Jul 1, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
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.
Well, I did do other things, but it was the final thing that actually
seemed to work. Perhaps I needed to do all of them. I also did:
xset s off apt-get remove gnome-screensaver (set the screensaver and power management prefs to none)
That's why it would be awesome to have this all in a simple-to-use
[screensaver] object. I added some more stuff to my [gnome-
screensaver] object:
.hc
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