Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/08/2024 01:58, gene heskett wrote: wakeup time is 5 + seconds by which time a sleeve caught on a chuck jaw has already tried to rip an arm off. Taking into account your approach to configure applications so sudo chmod 644 /etc/xdp/autostart/xscreensaver.desktop You need a larger red h

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread Lee
On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 10:57 AM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 01 Sep 2024 at 01:05:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > > And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login > > > again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by con

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Sep 2024 at 01:05:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login > > again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by confusing the > > unlocking screen with a login screen? Being DE-

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread gene heskett
On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread gene heskett
On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > > >> > > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > > >>

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread George at Clug
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: > > >> > > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > > >>&g

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > >> > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me > >>> ag

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-30 Thread David Wright
26/24 14:37, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] > > > > > came across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > > > > > > > > > Basic

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Trish Fraser
>On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: >> >>> S, 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

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread David Wright
gt; > > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping > > > by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me > > > out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a > > > black screen.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
un. And the Pi4b, even though it is fairly capable, is not scaled for ultimate performance. You are complaining about a desktop feature here. > > > > How - and from where did you install XFCE? > I used the package manager, usually synaptic, I assume Rod used a similar > procedure.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
nvironment. The path thru this garage is hardly wide enough for me, let alone company. S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. AFAICT you need to investigate XFCE's Power Manager. A quick go

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
ically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to wake it up. You have a

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 01:56:43PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2024-08-27 10:14 (UTC-0400): > > > tomas@ wrote: > > >> Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would > >> disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page > >> f

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2024-08-27 10:14 (UTC-0400): > tomas@ wrote: >> Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would >> disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page >> for all the gory details. This [1] is a good overview for all the >> other t

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came across a dangerous situation yesterday. Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in leaving lin

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, 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. Good luck! That I'm assuming is can

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
help us help you. But, alas, you left out the interesting tidbits :-) S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread tomas
d off? I think its runnin x, not wayland. OK. [...] > AArch64 debian, what do I remove to totally disable the screen blanker? I > don't even want it installed. in other words, noblank for the next 20 > years Apparently it is running wayland, and I can't run sudo synapticc.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
help us help you. But, alas, you left out the interesting tidbits :-) S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/08/2024 01:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platforms, pseudo-mouse USB devices, and even software emulated mice. This case it would be e

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> - most of the desktop environments incorporate some element of screen > blanking for security (or power saving). There's also "burn in" for some monitor technologies. Stefan

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2024-08-26 14:36 (UTC-0400): > ¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard, > to defeat it. Are you sure? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_keyboard_-.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AT_keyboard_original_layout.png https://

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-08-26 15:29, gene heskett wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. In Settings>Power Manager I selected "do nothing" or "never" for all the options. If want to

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, > screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in If everything else fails: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker".

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] > came across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping > by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came o

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
all, came > across a dangerous situation yesterday. > rt-preempt kernel - so home built? linuxcnc - your install or the Debian-provided package? > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by > hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locke

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread fxkl47BF
everal horsepower at its disposal. New install, came > across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by > hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out > till I logged back in leaving linu

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen > blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. IME, this is a bit of an uphill battle, sadly. Basically, lots of tools can request/cause some kind of "screen blanking" so you can neve

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread tomas
eft out the interesting tidbits :-) > S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen > blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly, the one you are after i

need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread gene heskett
oss a dangerous situation yesterday. Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong k

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 (EDT), Gene Heskett wrote: > > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and > tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the > screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 1

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 17:10:08 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > If the blanking is caused by a screensaver application under the control of > your desktop environment, that should work (I guess). > > But if it's caused by either DPMS being invoked, or X blanking the monitor, > then you'll need to expl

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 July 2015 06:21:48 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on > > xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort > > to kill

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:13 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and > tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the > screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minut

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:10:08PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: > > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > >> For xfce, you might try this: > >> > >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart > >> Scroll down and uncheck

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 19:10:08 D. R. Evans wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: > > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > >> For xfce, you might try this: > >> > >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart > >> Scroll down and uncheck Screens

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread D. R. Evans
Gene Heskett wrote on 07/16/2015 02:31 PM: > On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: >> For xfce, you might try this: >> >> Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart >> Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. > > Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchec

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Brian
every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort > > > to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it > > > for 10 minutes in a row. > > > > > > So obviously the solution is not an xset command in the startup. > > > > > > Doe

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 16 July 2015 21:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > might be useful if the above doesn't work out for you. for a session, however long it be, though not permanently: $ xset -dpms Or you may have to do: # xset -dpms That works until you next reboot. In my experience turning the screensav

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 16:25:29 Mike Castle wrote: > For xfce, you might try this: > > Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart > Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. Hadn't thought of that, thanks. I did set it by unchecking all the blankers and setting the times north of

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Mike Castle
For xfce, you might try this: Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver. There may be additional things you need to do to make sure session stuff isn't loading screensavers through some other mechanism (i.e, squirreled away in a saved sessi

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 July 2015 14:35:04 Brian wrote: > On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on > > xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort > > to kill the screen bla

Re: shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Brian
On Thu 16 Jul 2015 at 14:17:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and > tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the > screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minut

shutting off screen blanker forever?

2015-07-16 Thread Gene Heskett
My atom boxes are using xfce I think. And I have studied up on xset, and tried every combo that even looks suspicious in an effort to kill the screen blanker once and for all. But I can't even do it for 10 minutes in a row. So obviously the solution is not an xset command in the st

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread lee
ps me from > > using a screen saver, I don't want it to be active when the monitor is > > off. > > Well, than why don't you set the screen blanker to only blacken the screen. The screen already goes black, and later DPMS is used, without running another screensaver, so r

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:58:19AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:15, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> > >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde > > > > How do you know for sure if the screen sav

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread Manon Metten
creen saver, I don't want it to be active when the monitor is > off. Well, than why don't you set the screen blanker to only blacken the screen. It might look not so pretty, but it's more energy efficient and better for your monitor. And there's hardly any visible difference b

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:15, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome >> screensavers. >> >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensav

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-26 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome > screensavers. > > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html How do you know for sure if the screen saver stops

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > >>> Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking >>> or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up >>> only when I hit the keyboard. > >> searching a bit, it seems like

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-25 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Rob, >> Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking >> or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up >> only when I hit the keyboard. > searching a bit, it seems like if you're using xscreensaver, > increasing 'pointerHysteresis' a whole bunch m

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Starling
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:58:08AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 2008 November 24 12:32, Manon Metten wrote: > > Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking > > or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up > > only when I hit the

Re: Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2008 November 24 12:32, Manon Metten wrote: > Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking > or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up > only when I hit the keyboard. Unfortunately, this isn't really easy. It would probably take a numb

Screen blanker & Mouse

2008-11-24 Thread Manon Metten
Hi, Whenever I move my mouse, the screen wakes up from either blanking or dpms mode. I would like to turn that off and have the screen wake up only when I hit the keyboard. Can anyone please tell me if this is possible at all, and how to achive it. Thanks in advance, Manon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Screen Blanker

1999-04-21 Thread Nidge Jones
Debian long time agao :-) (also use update-rc.d) I run loads of stuff from 'local' OK, but whenever I try to add a setterm line to disable the screen blanker (and yes I use full path), it doesn't disable it. Accepts command OK, just doesn't disable :-( -- Nidge Jones

Screen Blanker

1999-04-21 Thread Kenneth Scharf
> >Real dumb stupid silly question.. > >Where does Debian (2.0) set the screen blanker >parameter at boot ! > >I guess it's set with "setterm -blank" - but where. I >have snooped >about all >over the place trying find the answer to this. > >I wa

Re: Screen Blanker

1999-04-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Nidge Jones wrote: > > Real dumb stupid silly question.. > > Where does Debian (2.0) set the screen blanker parameter at boot ! > > I guess it's set with "setterm -blank" - but where. I have snooped about all > over the place trying fin

Re: Screen Blanker

1999-04-21 Thread ktb
Nidge Jones wrote: > > Real dumb stupid silly question.. > > Where does Debian (2.0) set the screen blanker parameter at boot ! > > I guess it's set with "setterm -blank" - but where. I have snooped about all > over the place trying find the answer to this. &

Screen Blanker

1999-04-21 Thread Nidge Jones
Real dumb stupid silly question.. Where does Debian (2.0) set the screen blanker parameter at boot ! I guess it's set with "setterm -blank" - but where. I have snooped about all over the place trying find the answer to this. I want to disable mine (-blank 0) permentley? Th

Re: screen blanker

1996-06-05 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Michel LESPINASSE wrote: > > in the debian 1.1beta distribution, setterm does not seems to support > > such options. (the -msg option dissapeard, also). util-linux-2.5-4 will have a working setterm, making the setterm package obsolete. It'll get installed into the tree tonig

screen blanker

1996-05-31 Thread Michel LESPINASSE
in my previous setup I used to have "setterm -blank 15 -powersave on" launched in my init scripts. in the debian 1.1beta distribution, setterm does not seems to support such options. (the -msg option dissapeard, also). Is this because the setterm included in debian is not up-to-date (in which