[mythtv-users] Help me disable screen blanking in FC7

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Jason McMillon wrote:

> On 10/10/07, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:47 AM, James Fidell wrote:
>>
>>> Jason McMillon wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the suggestion...
>>>>> The following seems to be working for me:
>>>>> /usr/bin/xset s off
>>>>> /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>>>>>
>>>>> I think when I installed xinetd it overwrote my default settings,
>>>>> and
>>>>> for some reason
>>>>> my perform on login script isn't working.  I am going to drop the
>>>>> above in my rc.local file and see if works on reboots.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the help!!
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>> Well, neither the rc.local or the above recommendation worked.  The
>>>> only thing that works is:
>>>> /usr/bin/xset s off
>>>> /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas how to correct.  I am fairly sure it's xinetd doing this.
>>>> My start up script is located in /home/mythtv/.kde/Autostart/ and
>>>> includes the above but does not seem to work...
>>>
>>> rc.local isn't likely to work in this case as it gets executed  
>>> outside
>>> the X environment.  I *believe* though, that starting up the window
>>> manager (kde/gnome/whatever) turning off the screensaver should  
>>> be the
>>> equivalent of "xset s off".
>>
>> Or put the commands in either /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession or /etc/X11/
>> xinit/xinitrc, depending on whether you're using a graphical login or
>> booting in text mode and running 'startx'.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtv-users mailing list
>> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>
> I appended
> /usr/bin/xset s off
> /usr/bin/xset -dpms
>
> to both Xsession and xinitrc without any success.

Just appending them may not work.  The way X startup works is the  
last program to run is the window manager -- which is *not*  
backgrounded, so the xinit script process stops at that point until  
the window manager is exited.  X exits when the script exits.  For  
that reason, anything you append to the script *after* the window  
manager won't get run until you exit!  You want to find where in the  
script the window manager is being started, and put the xset commands  
before it.

> Any other ideas?

What window manager are you using?  Some of them have a mechanism for  
specifying X clients to run on startup.  You could also add those  
commands to whatever script you're using to launch mythfrontend, or  
write a wrapper script that executes them and call that instead of  
running mythfrontend directly.