On Friday 07 January 2022 03:03:25 pm Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > > Not sure what I'm looking at here... > > > > > > > > No processes with a suitable name. > > > > > > > > Is the "screensaver" showing pictures, or just going black after > > > > a while? > > > > > > It just goes black. The inside of the window that virtualbox uses, that > > > is. Nothing of the sort happening on the host machine. > > > > Ah-hah. > > > > Inside the virtualbox, run > > > > xset s off > > > > which will turn off the built-in X11 screen blanker. > > > > man xset for details. > > > > -dsr- > > Okay, tried that and we'll see what happens. > > My question, then, is what would have turned this on? It wasn't on > before...
That didn't do it, but apparently xset -dpms did. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
