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 blank though.
I also think it would be a useful feature for LinuxCNC to include an option where it itself can prevent screensavers. This would not be too hard for them to do, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/31504731/1941627 A friend also just brought up a good point... do these machines not have a physical emergency stop button? It seems like with them being as dangerous as you say they are, they should. I know the couple mills I have seen do. I would also take this issue up with the LinuxCNC community. Is it supposed to work like that? Does a new install from the LinuxCNC "Install DVD" behave the same? Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
