On 02-Mar-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined:
> I've been working on this for almost a week and I cannot get the screen
> blanking to stop.
>
> I have RH7 running on a Toshiba 520CDT laptop. I setup a user for
> myself
> and use that to log in and through the GNOME configuration tool I have
> a
> screen saver starting after 5 minutes. The screen saver starts when
> it's
> supposed to and runs for an additional 15 minutes before the screen
> goes
> black. Looking through older digests I've found references to setterm
> and
> xset which I've run from a terminal window using 'su root' as
> suggested.
> I've read through the man pages to make sure that I've done it right
> and
> even tried some things in there that weren't in the lists. As a last
> resort I went to the RH Knowledge base and found 'Canned answer #50'
> and
> followed those instructions, again a fruitless effort. Does anyone
> have
> any suggestions that might really work, or can tell me if I'm doing
> these
> things with a user ID when I should be doing them as root? I'd really
> appreciate any help as this is truly maddening.
Try adding it to your ~/.xinitrc for the user desktop:
setterm -blank 0
Doing it as root after running the desktop might be made to work if you
specify the correct parameters. This is much easier and has ever failed
to work for me (even now in RH7.0).
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