Turn off screen saver

[Mike Burger]

That only covers the text consoles...not the X desktop.

Peter:  Aside from disabling the power management, have you disabled the 
actual screen saver settings?

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Mallasch, Paul wrote:

> In text mode I use "setterm blank -0"
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Peter Blajev
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:05 PM
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> Subject: Turn off screen saver
>
> Hi,
>
> my screen goes black after 10 min. (or 15min. - not sure) of inactivity.
>
> How do I setup my box so the screen will never go black, or in safe mode
> or anything like this?
>
> What I did so far is:
>  - in ControlCenter/Peripherals/Display/PowerControl I uncheck the box
> "Enable display power management".
>
> - in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the Monitor section I removed the line:
>  Option "dpms"
>
> and still if I leave it for 10-15min. the screen still goes black and
> wakes up when I move the mouse or press some key on the keyboard.
>
> I need the screen to be up and running all the time.
>
> OS: Red Hat EL 4 AS
> Kernel: 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL
> KDE: 3.3.1
>
> Please let me know if you need more info.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> -- Peter
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