I've been trying on and off for a year or so to get it so the monitor was powered off, or at least the backlight was turned off. Pretty much gave up. I think Windows manages to do it. It's supposed to be in the DPMS stuff.
On 2/13/18, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2018 09:34:44 Wookey wrote: > >> On 2018-02-05 12:12 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > How do I shut the screenblanker off on an arm64. >> >> It's no different on arm than any other arch SFAIK. This is probably a >> debian-user question really. >> >> > I have looked around in the xfce menu's looking for blanker timing >> > and such, but they aren't there. xset gets reset to its defaults , >> > which is way too fast, on a reboot. >> > >> > So how do I completely disable this so I can actually get something >> > done? 450 seconds is not enough to get logged in even. >> >> You can set screen blank times for XFCE in 'Settings'->'Power >> Manager', 'Display tab. or run xfce4-power-manager-settings. There >> you can set times, or just tell it not to blank or power-down at all. >> >> It is possible that you _also_ have something like xscreensaver >> installed, whcih may be trying to manage the screen too. You can just >> uninstall that. >> >> > And nothing related to ssh works until xfce is up and running. >> >> The openssh dameon is independent of the desktop and will start >> first. If you don't start the desktop ssh should still work. >> >> Wookey > > None of that is any real help with the problem, which is once locked, not > even John the ripper can find a working password to let you back in. > > But I did fix it, with my usual damn the topedo's attitude, I removed the > exec perms from both of the light-locker utilities, and killed those in > memory. Now the blanker kicks in but does not invoke dpms to turn the > monitor off (I won't say it ever did) , and I can walk back over to it, > touch the mouse or the spacebar on the keyboard, and I am instantly > looking at a screen ready to go back to work. Sure beats having to hit > the reset to reboot it in the middle of a longer job, like building a > realtime kernel. > > dpms, FWIW, doesn't work on a jessie install on a pi-3b either. The > blanker does blank, but does not power down the monitor. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach