Prevent X with ZaphodHeads from creating a :0.1 screen when monitor is disconnected

2020-03-26 Thread Dan Arena
Good morning, This is kind of an odd setup I am doing. I am usually using 2 monitors, and want separate X screens for each, so :0.0 and :0.1, but if the 2nd monitor is not connected I do not want :0.1 to be created. Up until now I have been using the nvidia driver, which by default has an option

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-02 Thread Dan Arena
Gene, Following up more about xfce4, you should be able to go into their Settings Manager and you can turn off the Screensaver and uncheck Power Management under the Advanced tab. You will still want to add the lines I mentioned before into /etc/X11/xorg.conf to prevent the screen from going

Re: Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

2020-10-02 Thread Dan Arena
Good afternoon Gene, I am not sure about xfce, I suspect they do have settings in their GUI settings manager to adjust what you want, but seeing as this is the xorg mailing list I will tell you how I do it when running just X with a simple window manager. This is probably what you want. I put