FC5: screensavers/screen blanking redux

[Alastair Neil]

On 5/4/06, Jim Lowman <jmlowman at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> It looks like I didn't communicate my problem effectively.
>
> I did a clean install of FC5 (32-bit) on my Dell 8500 laptop.
> When I go to System->Preferences->Screensaver under Gnome,
> the interface is decidedly different than that of FC4.  For example,
> the checkboxes where individual screensavers can be selected are
> missing.  I *think* what I need is to be able to do is deselect the one
> that
> represents a blank screen, or there is something in power management
> that is causing the display to blank after a while; perhaps 10 minutes.
>
> Any insight will be much appreciated.  I realize that this is a trivial
> matter in the big picture, but I would like to have things working in
> FC5 that worked in FC4.
>
> Jim


No what you need to do is disable blanking in the Xserver.  As I explained
before the command is "xset s off".  If you want this to be persistant edit
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common and append something like this:

if [ -x /usr/bin/xset ]; then
      /usr/bin/xset s off
fi
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