How to Disable screensaver

[Bob Barrett]

Fred Silsbee wrote:
>
> --- On Mon, 9/29/08, Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: Re: How to Disable screensaver
>> To: fredsilsbee at yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 5:27 PM
>>     
>>> screensaver is slightly buried.
>>>   
>>> KDE 4.1 menu->applications->system->system
>>>       
>> settings->left column screensaver
>>     
>>> Under the menu icon lower left, right click on an item
>>>       
>> and select "save to panel"
>>     
>>> I'd still like to know how to make the screensaver
>>>       
>> stay on indefinitely!
>>     
>>> There is some setting in xconfig or one of those
>>>       
>> files!
>>     
>>> Years ago I knew how to do this.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
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>> Your efforts to adjust the KDE screen saver can be
>> frustrated by dpms.
>>
>> dpms is normally setup to blank your screen after 10
>> minutes. It will
>> look like the blank screen saver has come on. Dpms is
>> controlled with
>> xset. "xset q" prints a longer report than this.
>> Look for "DPMS" about
>> two thirds of the way down:
>>
>> []$ xset q
>> DPMS (Energy Star):
>> Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
>> DPMS is Enabled
>> Monitor is On
>>
>> This will blank the screen in X in 10 minutes (1200 would
>> be 20 minutes,
>> but in every case, my screns blanked in 10 minutes).
>>
>> []$ xset dpms 0 0 0
>>
>> []$ xset q
>> DPMS (Energy Star):
>> Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
>> DPMS is Enabled
>> Monitor is On
>>
>> I set up a script as ~/.kde/Autostart/dpms000 including:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> /bin/sleep 5; /usr/bin/xset dpms 0 0 0
>>
>> The sleep statement was necessary in Fedora and Slackware,
>> but not in
>> Debian. I originally named the script dpms-off, but it
>> would not work in
>> Debian. The xset man page shows other ways to turn off
>> dpms, but they
>> would not work in my machines. Before doing this, the KDE
>> screen saver
>> would work at all, unless I set it to come on in less than
>> ten minutes.
>> If I set the screen saver to come at 5 minutes, it would
>> come for 5
>> minutes, and then the screen went blank. I don't
>> remember this problem
>> before fedora 6 or 7.
>>
>> Incidentally, KDE can be setup with shutdown scripts, also.
>>
>> ~/.kde/shutdown/restoresound :
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> cp /home/bob/sys.setup/sound/kmixctrlrc \
>> /home/bob/.kde/share/config/kmixctrlrc
>>
>> restores my desired Kmix default sound levels when I
>> logout, so there
>> won't be any rude surprises when I next start KDE.
>>
>> Bob
>>     
>
>
> My screensaver KDE 4.1.1 works great using the dialog provided
>
> and with nothing else.
>
> I used kpowersave to allow the screensaver to run indefinitely.
>
> I could not find kpowersave in the lower left icon menus.
>
> I found it at the panel lower right in the form of a little plug.
>
> Whadaya call this section again..it slips my memory
>
>   
Ooops... I had wondered why I was the only one with this problem.

Oh well... At least I learned more about xset.

Bob Barrett