[K12OSN] setting gnome-screensaver to blank-only

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sun Sep 3 22:35:43 UTC 2006


The default setting for K12LTSP installs should be for the screen saver
to just blank the screen. It is a big waste of bandwidth and cpu to have
all of the terminals running some fancy screen saver.

In K12LTSP 5.0, the default is to use gnome-screensaver rather than
xscreensaver that was used in previous versions. I missed adding the
configuration change required to set gnome-screensaver to blank-only
by default.

I'll fix this in the next update, but in the meantime you can run
this command to set gnome-screensaver to blank-only by default:


  gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \
          xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
          --type string --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/mode blank-only


-Eric




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