On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:36:32 +0000 Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> X and friends have insisted on actuating the screensaver for a long time now > and they use dpmi > > I have found this does lock up some hardware. Not just on Linux I've had > Windows lock up various laptop hardware as well attempting to "save the LCD > screen from burn in" (I wasn't aware LCD screens burned but what do I know > LOL) > > For some reason X makes it damn near impossible to shut the screensaver off > on boot so that the machine will just boot to the login screen and leave it > on forever. When the system is on a KVM it does NOT need a screensaver. Nor > does it need to be wasting CPU cycles on drawing "pipes" or other nonsense. > > Various xset invocations once you login seem to disable the "screensaver" > aha. i forgot about xset. just tried xset -dpms and after 2+ hours no problem. came back to my desk and the screen saver was active but the screen hadn't blanked. Could be the trouble. Need to test and see if there's a difference between standby/suspend/off. Looks like i can invoke xset to force a particular mode. Thank you. -- Brian
