How to disable xscreensaver

[Bob Chiodini]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 10:41 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 23:33 +0100, Zubin Bharucha wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I think so. If I remember correctly, FC4 ships without the screensaver 
> >>package but still after a while, the screen blanks out.
> >>-Zubin
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > FC-4 has the screensaver-base package.
> > 
> > But screen blanking I believe is power management stuff, not the
> > screensaver.
> > 
> 
> Having found that power management is off by default, I just turned 
> mine on via the screensaver.  I had to adjust the times to suit my 
> needs.  My power management works if the terminal is left in login 
> mode but didn't if the user was logged in.
> 
> It also doesn't work if the user is logged in and the screensaver is off.
> 
> Before I moved to FC4, I used a shell login and used setterm to adjust 
> the power management features.  I think that there may also be 
> something in the BIOS on some computers to achieve this.
> 
> Robin
> 

See xset.  You can also set some of the DPMS options in xorg.conf.

Bob...