This has nothing to do with SDL, but does anybody know how to turn of screen
blanking within X under Linux? Within a console (mostly fbcon for games
its easy with setterm -blank 0, but this doesn’t help in an xterm.
This has nothing to do with SDL, but does anybody know how to turn of screen
blanking within X under Linux? Within a console (mostly fbcon for games
its easy with setterm -blank 0, but this doesn’t help in an xterm.
Sure, here’s an example…
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor “CTX 1765”
OffTime 0 # THESE 3 LINES TURN OFF
BlankTime 0 # BLANKING SCREEN
SuspendTime 0 # IN X SESSIONS
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "320x240"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
This has nothing to do with SDL, but does anybody know how to turn of screen
blanking within X under Linux? Within a console (mostly fbcon for games
its easy with setterm -blank 0, but this doesn’t help in an xterm.
Sure, here’s an example…
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor “CTX 1765”
OffTime 0 # THESE 3 LINES TURN OFF
BlankTime 0 # BLANKING SCREEN
SuspendTime 0 # IN X SESSIONS
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "320x240"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Without changing your X11 configuration, you can just use the ‘xset’ command.
It supports the following options :
For screen-saver control:
s [timeout [cycle]] s default s on
s blank s noblank s off
s expose s noexpose
s activate s reset
So do an ‘xset s off’ to turn off the screen saver (blanking).–
Stephane Peter
Programmer
Loki Entertainment Software
“Microsoft has done to computers what McDonald’s has done to gastronomy”
Yes it should, but it won’t work very well.
10 Machines in my company are running the whole day.
I must have written a script which turns every 5 minutes
the screen on.