[mythtv-users] Disable screen blanking

Dan Littlejohn dan.littlejohn at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 22:43:14 UTC 2005


I had a problem with xset seg faulting so the X screen saver would
then come on.  Have you checked your logs to see if it ran ok?


On 8/3/05, chris at cpr.homelinux.net <chris at cpr.homelinux.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:35:38PM +0100, Darren Coleman wrote:
> > I have a script which starts mythfrontend after doing "xset s off" and "xset
> > -dpms off" etc and despite this the screensaver always kicks in, even on
> > "Blank Screen Only".  If I move the mouse or presses a key it asks me to
> > enter a password.
> 
> What window manager are you using?  AFAIK, the xset command only
> enables/disables the integrated Xserver blanking.  That won't help you
> if your WM is watching the mouse/keyboard and launching an external
> screen saver.
> 
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