Stop screen saver running

MKlinke mklinke at axsi.com
Tue Jul 13 12:47:24 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 13 July 2004 07:12, Chris Mason wrote:
> I usually leave a user logged in on my backup server in the
> datacenter so that my assistant can restart the backup after
> changing tapes, and monitor the backups, however, I notice that the
> screen savers take up to 80% of the CPU which is not acceptable. 
> Is there a way I can remotely kill all screensaver sessions so the
> screen just blanks or doesn't go into screensaver at all?
>
> Chris Mason

It may be worth a try to edit the .kde/share/config/kdesktoprc file to 
disable it; i.e.:
 
[ScreenSaver]
Enabled=false

if you are using KDE.  If you're using Gnome there's probably a 
similar config setting.

Regards,  Mike Klinke






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