--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: Bob Barrett <bobbrrtt(a)earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: How to Disable screensaver
> To: fredsilsbee(a)yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for
using Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 5:27 PM
>
>> screensaver is slightly buried.
>>
>> KDE 4.1 menu->applications->system->system
>>
> settings->left column screensaver
>
>> Under the menu icon lower left, right click on an item
>>
> and select "save to panel"
>
>> I'd still like to know how to make the screensaver
>>
> stay on indefinitely!
>
>> There is some setting in xconfig or one of those
>>
> files!
>
>> Years ago I knew how to do this.
>>
>>
>>
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> Your efforts to adjust the KDE screen saver can be
> frustrated by dpms.
>
> dpms is normally setup to blank your screen after 10
> minutes. It will
> look like the blank screen saver has come on. Dpms is
> controlled with
> xset. "xset q" prints a longer report than this.
> Look for "DPMS" about
> two thirds of the way down:
>
> []$ xset q
> DPMS (Energy Star):
> Standby: 1200 Suspend: 1800 Off: 2400
> DPMS is Enabled
> Monitor is On
>
> This will blank the screen in X in 10 minutes (1200 would
> be 20 minutes,
> but in every case, my screns blanked in 10 minutes).
>
> []$ xset dpms 0 0 0
>
> []$ xset q
> DPMS (Energy Star):
> Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0
> DPMS is Enabled
> Monitor is On
>
> I set up a script as ~/.kde/Autostart/dpms000 including:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/sleep 5; /usr/bin/xset dpms 0 0 0
>
> The sleep statement was necessary in Fedora and Slackware,
> but not in
> Debian. I originally named the script dpms-off, but it
> would not work in
> Debian. The xset man page shows other ways to turn off
> dpms, but they
> would not work in my machines. Before doing this, the KDE
> screen saver
> would work at all, unless I set it to come on in less than
> ten minutes.
> If I set the screen saver to come at 5 minutes, it would
> come for 5
> minutes, and then the screen went blank. I don't
> remember this problem
> before fedora 6 or 7.
>
> Incidentally, KDE can be setup with shutdown scripts, also.
>
> ~/.kde/shutdown/restoresound :
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cp /home/bob/sys.setup/sound/kmixctrlrc \
> /home/bob/.kde/share/config/kmixctrlrc
>
> restores my desired Kmix default sound levels when I
> logout, so there
> won't be any rude surprises when I next start KDE.
>
> Bob
>
My screensaver KDE 4.1.1 works great using the dialog provided
and with nothing else.
I used kpowersave to allow the screensaver to run indefinitely.
I could not find kpowersave in the lower left icon menus.
I found it at the panel lower right in the form of a little plug.
Whadaya call this section again..it slips my memory
Ooops... I had wondered why I was the only one with this problem.
Oh well... At least I learned more about xset.
Bob Barrett