On Saturday, 31-08-2024 at 18:01 George at Clug wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote:
> > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the
> > >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me
> > >>> again.
> > >>
> > >> Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the
> > >> screensaver.
>
> If this helps anyone, my comment is: I don't use screensavers
> either, so as described above, in XFCE's Power Manager, Display tab, I
> set 'Blank after' to 'Never', 'Put to sleep after' to 'Never', 'Switch
> off after' to 'Never, and then I select the "Display power management"
> slider to off.
>
> In XFCE's Session and Startup, General tab, I unchecked "Lock screen
> before sleep".
>
> I cannot remember making any other changes that are relevant to screen
> savers or power management.
>
> I made these settings a year or so go, I have not had need to reapply
> these settings (after updates or power off/on), and my screen does not
> go blank while I am using my computer, my two monitors just continue
> to show my linux screens.
>
>
> George.
I should have mentioned that I am using Debian 12 (Bookworm), so I do not know
if Debian 10 performed the same or not. I would assume it would but as my year
2 teach used say about "assuming"...
George.
>
>
>
>
> > >>
> > >> Good luck!
> > >>
> > >That I'm assuming is canceled by the next reboot. And I get killed
> by
> > >linuxcnc starting up while I can't see it. So to make it permanent,
>
> > >either uninstall the perpetrator, or put something into
> /etc/Xsessions
> > >or its option file. The question is what do I do to make it
> permanent?
> >
> > Disabling it in settings *is* permanent.
> > --
> > Trish Fraser, VVMZ4 91L2V -35.67910, 142.66607
> > Wed 28 Aug 2024 11:31:10 AEST
> > GNU/Linux 1997-2024 #283226 counter.li.org
> > andromeda up up 1 hour, 7 minutes
> > Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
> > kernel 6.1.0-23-amd64
> >
> >
>
