turning off screensaver

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

inhabitant of zion wrote:

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> Hi
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> Is there a way to switch off the screensaver from command line.
> Screensaver in Feisty keeps crashing x under gnome and just opening
> the screensaver controller gui also does the same.

Sounds like you have a corrupt screen saver. Try this: 

In a terminal window...

 killall gnome-screensaver

That will "shut off" your screen saver. Then set it to a blank screen
by editing your config file...

 gedit ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-screensaver/%gconf.xml

Change the 'name' string to "blank-only", and delete the theme string.
You should end up with something like this (please excuse the email
wrapping):

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <gconf>
        <entry name="idle_delay" mtime="1169115409" type="int"
 value="10"> </entry>
        <entry name="lock_enabled" mtime="1167900901" type="bool"
 value="false"> </entry>
        <entry name="mode" mtime="1171103972" type="string">
                <stringvalue>blank-only</stringvalue>
        </entry>
        <entry name="themes" mtime="1171103972" type="list"
 ltype="string"> </entry>
 </gconf>

Make note of what the "theme" is set to because that's probably the
screen saver that's causing you problems. Try setting it to something
else just to be sure (you'll need to reboot or restart
gnome-screensaver).

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