Screen Saver

[Ray Parrish]

Rashkae wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
>   
>> Ray Parrish wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> MY attitude??? Really long thread??? I just started this thread 
>>> yesterday, and not that many suggestions have been given or tried. I 
>>> have seen people on this group jumped on for posting solutions to 
>>> problems they had without asking a question, and being accused of 
>>> blogging for it. Frankly I think posts of that type are useful as they 
>>> provide solutions to problems that someone else might have sometime.
>>>
>>>       
>> <Snip>
>>
>> Hint: man xset
>>
>> xset q
>>
>> And now,, *plonk*
>>
>>     
>
> For the sake of everyone else who has been reading this thread, I'll
> explain.  Forgive my rudeness, I can be a little termpermental.  (I'm
> sure some of you have noticed by now)
>
> Ray's problem is truely the greatest irony.  His very first post
> explained it, but it's been so long since most of us have used X without
> the comfort of gnome, the implications went right over everyone's head.
>
> For as long as I can remember, it has been X's default to blank the
> screen after 10 minutes of inactivity.  This is not done by any
> screensaver program, it's just a built in default with X.
>
> You can view this with the command 'xset q'.  You can disable the
> behaviour with 'xset s 0' to change the default 600 seconds to 0 (disabled)
>
> Now, gentle readers, you may be wondering, if this is a default with X,
> why doesn't my screen go blank after 10 minutes?  The reason is that
> there is a gnome component that overwrites default X settings.  What
> gnome component you ask?  Gnome-screensaver, that is, until Ray
> completely disabled it from within gconf.
>
>   
Ahhhh! Thanks for the additional information. I didn't know my fiddling 
around inside gconfig editor would have that affect. It had settings for 
the screen saver, and I thought they would access the same settings as 
the the gui screensaver dialog, now I know better.

Once again, thanks for solving my problem Rashkae, and also for 
educating me on Linux, I didn't even know there was an xset command. 
Little by little every day I am learning. 8-) And thanks for knowledge 
of the alternate command of "xset s 0", I used "xset s off" which worked 
for me.

Plonk me anytime you want, at least you knew where to point me. 8-)

Later, Ray Parrish

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