Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen -- SOLVED!!

2025-06-07 Thread Greg
On 2025-06-06, intnsred...@tutamail.com wrote: > > Solution -- Found it: > > The problem was a setting the System Settings -> Workspace Behavior -> Desk= > top Effects -> and then under Accessibility, the Zoom option. Unselect the = > Zoom option and it cured my problem. Sounds like an option Ric

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen -- SOLVED!!

2025-06-06 Thread intnsred667
n 2025-06-03, intnsred...@tutamail.com wrote: > >> >> I'm running KDE/Wayland (does the same with Xorg too) on Bookw >> orm/stable and while using the system all of a sudden the screen >> became "larger" than the actual screen -- like I was using some sort >

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-06 Thread Greg
On 2025-06-03, intnsred...@tutamail.com wrote: > > I'm running KDE/Wayland (does the same with Xorg too) on Bookw > orm/stable and while using the system all of a sudden the screen > became "larger" than the actual screen -- like I was using some sort > of "

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/06/2025 03:21, Van Snyder wrote: This isn't exactly useful if you don't have a Windoze key. I love my old "Model M" IBM PS-2 keyboard. Reliable for the last thirty five years. Lovely "feel." Built like a brick sh¡thouse. Can I create a Windoze key by remapping something, say "Pause?"

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:08:48 -0700 Van Snyder wrote: Hello Van, >There's a "Shortcuts" page but it's a list of shortcuts to launch >applications, Here, that page has an 'Add New' button right at the top. Plasma has a submenu (with some fairly esoteric things listed) which I don't recall seing

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-04 Thread intnsred667
I have a Windows key on this keyboard (pressing it seems to do nothing). Pressing the Win key with Alt and moving the mouse and various combinations does nothing to "switch off" this mode and to restore a normal-sized desktop. Suggestions please? --   Jun 4, 2025, 16:09 by van.sny...@sbcgl

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-04 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 21:47 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:21:37 -0700 > Van Snyder wrote: > > Hello Van, > > > This isn't exactly useful if you don't have a Windoze key. I love > > my > > My thoughts, exactly. > > > Can I create a Windoze key by remapping something, say "P

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:21:37 -0700 Van Snyder wrote: Hello Van, >This isn't exactly useful if you don't have a Windoze key. I love my My thoughts, exactly. >Can I create a Windoze key by remapping something, say "Pause?" Yes, you can with remapping. It's not something I've ever had to do, b

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-04 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 20:40 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 21:23:24 +0200 (CEST) > intnsred...@tutamail.com wrote: > > Hello intnsred...@tutamail.com, > > > every ALT key combination I can think of -- no luck. > > In testing, KDE has moved many of Plasma's ALT key combos to the M

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 21:23:24 +0200 (CEST) intnsred...@tutamail.com wrote: Hello intnsred...@tutamail.com, >every ALT key combination I can think of -- no luck. In testing, KDE has moved many of Plasma's ALT key combos to the META (Windows) key. Really helpfully. Without notice or warning I could

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-04 Thread intnsred667
and (does the same with Xorg too) on >> Bookworm/stable >> and while using the system all of a sudden the screen became "larger" >> than the >> actual screen -- like I was using some sort of "virtual desktop." >> >>    I've tried rese

Re: Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 01:31 +0200, intnsred...@tutamail.com wrote: >    I'm running KDE/Wayland (does the same with Xorg too) on > Bookworm/stable > and while using the system all of a sudden the screen became "larger" > than the > actual screen -- like I was using

Debian stable's screen suddenly became "larger" than the actual screen

2025-06-03 Thread intnsred667
   I'm running KDE/Wayland (does the same with Xorg too) on Bookworm/stable and while using the system all of a sudden the screen became "larger" than the actual screen -- like I was using some sort of "virtual desktop."    I've tried resetting the monitor

Re: pinentry-qt and on-screen keyboards (fwd)

2025-04-10 Thread fxkl47BF
what is the debian default -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:48:25 +0200 From: Ingo Klöcker Reply-To: gnupg-us...@gnupg.org To: gnupg-us...@gnupg.org Subject: Re: pinentry-qt and on-screen keyboards On Mittwoch, 9. April 2025 23:57:24 Mitteleuropäische

make X11 screen agnostic for media center on receiver

2024-11-24 Thread Dexter Filmore
ch I then get rid of with killall xfce4-display-settings which clears the screen. What I'd like to achieve is debian just running with a default config (the TV behind the receiver indeed is a 4K display) and let Kodi do its thing (Kodi can switch to the native resolutions of the video source

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-20 Thread Max Nikulin
till completion of software or firmware upgrade. I expect that media players should use inhibit from screen saver, not from systemd.

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-20 Thread Charles Curley
[a4] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 root@jhegaala:~# XFCE also has a manual way to turn off the screensaver. In the power manager plugin settings, enable the "Presentation mode" indicator. Then use it to turn presentation mode (no screen b

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In KDE (and maybe other windowmanagers) the screen is going black after a > while of doing nothing. This is especially annoying, when watching a video in > firefox i.e. from youtube or watching a video in VLC. Blanking seems acceptable if your video is running in some window somewher

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM Hans wrote: > > I am searching the cause of a little issue, which some day appeared. > > The issue is the following: > > In KDE (and maybe other windowmanagers) the screen is going black after a > while of doing nothing. This is especially an

Re: Black screen.

2024-11-19 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
Kubuntu), there was a problem with the >>> suspend resource. The laptop turns off by itself and only it starts working >>> again when I turn it on, it resumes working from the point where it >>> stopped, but it does this action indefinitely. I solved this problem via >

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 12:57 PM Hans wrote: > > I am searching the cause of a little issue, which some day appeared. > > The issue is the following: > > In KDE (and maybe other windowmanagers) the screen is going black after a > while of doing nothing. This is especially an

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Nov 2024 at 16:53:59 (+0100), Hans wrote: > Does this not set dpms off permanently? This was the workaround, I already > read > of. I had the hope of a setting, when watching video, dpms will be > automatically shut off. Script it then? > Since when did debian activate DPMS? As this

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/11/2024 22:22, Hans wrote: The strange thing is: When watching a video with "smplayer" or with "mpv", then the screen is not going blank. My guess is that mpv properly inhibits screensaver, likely using a D-Bus call. <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Hans
Does this not set dpms off permanently? This was the workaround, I already read of. I had the hope of a setting, when watching video, dpms will be automatically shut off. Since when did debian activate DPMS? As this issue appeared after some upgrade, it must be added or activated somehow. Of co

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Rand Pritelrohm
On 2024-11-19 16:22:44, Hans wrote: [SNIP] > Any ideas, from where this behaviour is controlled? Or some other ideas, like > this could be fixed? [SNIP] Hello, Maybe by adding this in your $HOME/.xinitrc: xset -dpms s off xset s 0 -dpms Regards Rand

how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Hans
Dear list, I am searching the cause of a little issue, which some day appeared. The issue is the following: In KDE (and maybe other windowmanagers) the screen is going black after a while of doing nothing. This is especially annoying, when watching a video in firefox i.e. from youtube or

Re: Black screen.

2024-11-15 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
bling suspend. After that, the installation went on normally. >> However, when I started it and tried to log in, the screen turned off. If I >> had already selected a user and entered the password, even with the screen >> off, I was logged in and I used the system as that user wh

Re: Black screen.

2024-11-15 Thread milton César Disegna de Souza Leite
when I turn it on, it resumes working from the point where it stopped, but >> it does this action indefinitely. I solved this problem via GRUB by >> disabling suspend. After that, the installation went on normally. However, >> when I started it and tried to log in, the screen

Re: Black screen.

2024-11-14 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
; GRUB by disabling suspend. After that, the installation went on normally. > However, when I started it and tried to log in, the screen turned off. If I > had already selected a user and entered the password, even with the screen > off, I was logged in and I used the system as that user which

Black screen.

2024-11-14 Thread milton César Disegna de Souza Leite
working again when I turn it on, it resumes working from the point where it stopped, but it does this action indefinitely. I solved this problem via GRUB by disabling suspend. After that, the installation went on normally. However, when I started it and tried to log in, the screen turned off. If I

Re: Blank kms screen before starting gstreamer video on kmssink

2024-11-10 Thread Rainer Dorsch
ample ! autoaudiosink > > which uses the hardware decoder on the NXP i.MX6 SoC. > > The problem I have is that for videos which do not match the aspect ratio of > the screen (e.g. 1280x720 video on 1280x1080 screen) there is still console > text visible on the portion of the

Blank kms screen before starting gstreamer video on kmssink

2024-11-10 Thread Rainer Dorsch
that for videos which do not match the aspect ratio of the screen (e.g. 1280x720 video on 1280x1080 screen) there is still console text visible on the portion of the screen which is not overlayed with the gstreamer video output. Does anybody know how I can blank the kms screen in shell script

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-18 Thread FJD
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM FJD wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, FJD wrote: I've switched the cable a couple of times. I just switched out the cable and used a different one. Streaky blurry darker screen. Try booting with Live C

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM FJD wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, FJD wrote: > > > I've switched the cable a couple of times. I just switched out the cable > and > > used a different one. > > > > Streaky blurry darker screen. > Try booting with Live C

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-14 Thread FJD
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, gene heskett wrote: Thank you for the information! NP. That is a given for someone with a CET after his sig. Actually, after watching the video, I'm less convinced. Don't want to squander your time, and I know nothing about the electronics but could you just hint what is

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-14 Thread FJD
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, gene heskett wrote: On 10/14/24 09:17, FJD wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, FJD wrote: I've switched the cable a couple of times. I just switched out the cable and used a different one. Streaky blurry darker screen. I should add or clarify that it seems to im

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-14 Thread gene heskett
On 10/14/24 09:17, FJD wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, FJD wrote: I've switched the cable a couple of times. I just switched out the cable and used a different one. Streaky blurry darker screen. I should add or clarify that it seems to improve considerably after a couple of minutes. Th

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT (fwd)

2024-10-14 Thread FJD
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote: Not much of a film director but here a short video of the phenomenon. Ah, that doesn't looks like a software problem, indeed. Yeah, and a couple of minutes it almost completely goes away though I note the screen is darker than normal.

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-14 Thread Kent West
On 10/14/24 8:44 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Not much of a film director but here a short video of the phenomenon. Ah, that doesn't looks like a software problem, indeed. Stefan Yeah, that seems like a hardware problem. Two thoughts: 1) Boot off a live USB stick; that eliminates curr

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Not much of a film director but here a short video of the phenomenon. Ah, that doesn't looks like a software problem, indeed. Stefan

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-14 Thread FJD
On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, FJD wrote: I've switched the cable a couple of times. I just switched out the cable and used a different one. Streaky blurry darker screen. I should add or clarify that it seems to improve considerably after a couple of minutes. Also after I begin to run th

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A couple of days ago it starts up with a flurry, relatively dark screen with > streaks. After about 10 minutes hooked by HDMI to a monitor for tv it > becomes more distinct and brighter though not so much as before, streaks > are gone. (I think it may be getting darker. The ima

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-13 Thread FJD
On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, ael wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 08:36:56PM +0200, FJD wrote: screen. A couple of days ago it starts up with a flurry, relatively dark screen with streaks. After about 10 minutes hooked by HDMI to a monitor for tv it becomes more distinct and brighter though not so much

Streaks on screen. maybe OT

2024-10-13 Thread FJD
Greets! This is likely more a hardware question but it's hard to ignore such knowledgeable people at keyboard length. My Acer Swift 3 running TDE (Trinity Desktop, a successor to KDE3) for about three years, now on Debian 12, usually has a bright and sharp (matte) screen. A couple of

Re: Bugs in display scaling and screen resolution setting

2024-09-23 Thread George at Clug
r are you using? >   > I see an issues in ver. 12.6.0 started from the live image:  >   > Scaling the desktop by Settings - Display - General - Scale works  > counter-intuitive, setting it to 2x reduces everything on screen to quarter > size,  > half height and half widt

Bugs in display scaling and screen resolution setting

2024-09-23 Thread newbie-02
screen to quarter size,  half height and half width, while setting it to Custom - 0.5x enlarges it to  double height and double width.    And an issue where I can't decide if debian or Kali:    Between Kali 2024-W32 and 2024-W36 ( weekly unstable ) something got lost which  makes some di

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-02 Thread Hans
Soe Windowmagaers got theire own powermanagement, i.e. KDE is susing powerdevil. Do not know, if its settings also effect the konsole without X. You could also check acpi settings, maybe you will find something there. Just an idea Best Hans

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread Max Nikulin
hardware button works independently of power saving and screen locking applications.

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread David Christensen
On 9/1/24 03:15, Richard Owlett wrote: Lenovo R61 ThinkPad Debian 10.0 MATE 1.20.4 The screen automatically dims when AC removed. System->Hardware->Power Management->OnBatteryPower->Display "Reduce backlight brightness" & "Dim display when idle" unchecked

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread Lee
On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 10:57 AM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 01 Sep 2024 at 01:05:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > > And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login > > > again after the scre

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread tomas
gt; > No, it's not installed. So this is not the culprit. > I'll install it when I can update Debian. Don't (see also Andrew's response in this thread). I suspected this is the one dimming the screen when off AC. But it seems it's not. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Sep 2024 at 01:05:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login > > again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by confusing the > > unlocking screen wit

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Lenovo R61 ThinkPad [...] > The screen automatically dims when AC removed. > System->Hardware->Power Management->OnBatteryPower->Display > "Reduce backlight brightness" & "Dim display when idle" unchecked > Any where else to look? I'd look at the BIOS settings. Stefan

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 07:03:40AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/01/2024 06:09 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 05:15:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Lenovo R61 ThinkPad > > > Debian 10.0 MATE 1.20.4 > > > The scree

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/01/2024 06:09 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 05:15:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Lenovo R61 ThinkPad Debian 10.0 MATE 1.20.4 The screen automatically dims when AC removed. System->Hardware->Power Management->OnBatteryPower->Display "Reduce bac

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread tomas
On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 05:15:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Lenovo R61 ThinkPad > Debian 10.0 MATE 1.20.4 > The screen automatically dims when AC removed. > System->Hardware->Power Management->OnBatteryPower->Display > "Reduce backlight brightness" &am

Re: Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 05:15:01AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Lenovo R61 ThinkPad > Debian 10.0 MATE 1.20.4 > The screen automatically dims when AC removed. > System->Hardware->Power Management->OnBatteryPower->Display > "Reduce backlight brightness"

Laptop screen dim on battery power

2024-09-01 Thread Richard Owlett
Lenovo R61 ThinkPad Debian 10.0 MATE 1.20.4 The screen automatically dims when AC removed. System->Hardware->Power Management->OnBatteryPower->Display "Reduce backlight brightness" & "Dim display when idle" unchecked Any where else to look? TIA

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread gene heskett
On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread gene heskett
On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > > >> > > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > > >>

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 31-08-2024 at 18:01 George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > > >> > > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > > >>&g

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > >> > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me > >>> ag

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-30 Thread David Wright
y years or so > > My last lappy was disposed of 10 years ago. The touchpad interface was > the least of its problems. > > > But finding the safest key to use may be irrelevant if Gene doesn't > > trust even basic screen blanking to occur (see above). > > >

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Trish Fraser
>On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: >> >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me >>> again. >> >> Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread David Wright
gt; > > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping > > > by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me > > > out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a > > > black screen.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
un. And the Pi4b, even though it is fairly capable, is not scaled for ultimate performance. You are complaining about a desktop feature here. > > > > How - and from where did you install XFCE? > I used the package manager, usually synaptic, I assume Rod used a similar > procedure.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 14:37, David Wright wrote: On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] came across a dangerous situation yesterday. Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
ically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to wake it up. You have a

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 01:56:43PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2024-08-27 10:14 (UTC-0400): > > > tomas@ wrote: > > >> Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would > >> disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page > >> f

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2024-08-27 10:14 (UTC-0400): > tomas@ wrote: >> Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would >> disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page >> for all the gory details. This [1] is a good overview for all the >> other t

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came across a dangerous situation yesterday. Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in leaving lin

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the screensaver. Good luck! That I'm assuming is can

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
help us help you. But, alas, you left out the interesting tidbits :-) S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread tomas
d off? I think its runnin x, not wayland. OK. [...] > AArch64 debian, what do I remove to totally disable the screen blanker? I > don't even want it installed. in other words, noblank for the next 20 > years Apparently it is running wayland, and I can't run sudo synapticc.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
help us help you. But, alas, you left out the interesting tidbits :-) S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Max Nikulin
it-dialog" --reason "User action" \ -- env WINDOWID= \ zenity --warning --title "Screen lock inhibited" \ --text "Activation of screen lock is suppressed" As to monitor settings, perhaps they may be changed from its menu. If your are lucky then they are exposed to DDC control tools.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> - most of the desktop environments incorporate some element of screen > blanking for security (or power saving). There's also "burn in" for some monitor technologies. Stefan

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2024-08-26 14:36 (UTC-0400): > ¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard, > to defeat it. Are you sure? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_keyboard_-.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AT_keyboard_original_layout.png https://

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-08-26 15:29, gene heskett wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. In Settings>Power Manager I selected "do nothing" or "never" for all the options. If want to

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, > screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in If everything else fails: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker".

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] > came across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping > by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came o

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
all, came > across a dangerous situation yesterday. > rt-preempt kernel - so home built? linuxcnc - your install or the Debian-provided package? > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by > hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locke

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread fxkl47BF
everal horsepower at its disposal. New install, came > across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by > hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out > till I logged back in leaving linu

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen > blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. IME, this is a bit of an uphill battle, sadly. Basically, lots of tools can request/cause some kind of "screen blanking" so you can neve

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread tomas
eft out the interesting tidbits :-) > S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen > blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly, the one you are after i

need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread gene heskett
oss a dangerous situation yesterday. Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong k

Re: Dark X screen on a raspberry Pi2

2024-08-01 Thread Yves Caniou
With the files. Le 01/08/2024 à 11:32, Yves Caniou a écrit : Hi, I installed a bookworm Debian on a raspi2 from   https://raspi.debian.net/daily-images/ The Pi boots and works well. Then installed lxde, but the screen turns black when ligthdm launches. I don't know if something comes f

Dark X screen on a raspberry Pi2

2024-08-01 Thread Yves Caniou
Hi, I installed a bookworm Debian on a raspi2 from https://raspi.debian.net/daily-images/ The Pi boots and works well. Then installed lxde, but the screen turns black when ligthdm launches. I don't know if something comes from X settings, but I can see [ 692.638] (II) modeset(0): D

Re: Debian 12.6: Screen won't come back on if monitor is power cycled

2024-07-19 Thread debian-user
Johan Sjölin wrote: > On 7/17/24 23:30, Kent West wrote: > > > Try pressing a shift key a couple of times, and then blindly typing > > your user password. > My guess is that the screensaver/lock is > > wonky. > > Doesn't work. I don't u

Re: Debian 12.6: Screen won't come back on if monitor is power cycled

2024-07-19 Thread Johan Sjölin
On 7/17/24 23:30, Kent West wrote: Try pressing a shift key a couple of times, and then blindly typing your user password. > My guess is that the screensaver/lock is wonky. Doesn't work. I don't use any screensaver or automatic screen lock. Whenever I power cycle the monit

Re: Debian 12.6: Screen won't come back on if monitor is power cycled

2024-07-17 Thread Kent West
On 7/17/24 3:55 PM, Johan Sjölin wrote: Hi! Since upgrading to Debian 12.6, I've started to experience a very strange problem with my monitor. If I turn it off and later turn it on again, the screen won't come back on (no signal). Doesn't help if I press a key or a mouse b

Debian 12.6: Screen won't come back on if monitor is power cycled

2024-07-17 Thread Johan Sjölin
Hi! Since upgrading to Debian 12.6, I've started to experience a very strange problem with my monitor. If I turn it off and later turn it on again, the screen won't come back on (no signal). Doesn't help if I press a key or a mouse button. The only way to recover from th

Switch user causes screen to go blank

2024-06-22 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, When ones does a switch user from the application launch button then the screen goes blank and it stays that way until re-booted. This seems to have been introduced in Debian 12. Looking around there is no fix to this, only work arounds of varying effectiveness. One work around

Re: Debian does not load zfs automatically at boot and strange messages displayed on the screen...

2024-04-30 Thread DdB
Am 30.04.2024 um 16:48 schrieb Mario Marietto: > Probably this is not the proper method to do it ? Done it in vm's and on bare metal many times. Never ran into your kind of problems. :-( Here is the guide, i suggest: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/index.html#instal

Debian does not load zfs automatically at boot and strange messages displayed on the screen...

2024-04-30 Thread Mario Marietto
/modules because I want to autoload zfs as soon as Debian makes the booting,but it does not work. Probably this is not the proper method to do it ? 2) As you can see on the attached picture,I see a lot of strange messages on the screen ; I don't understand why they happen,but I would like to sup

Re: Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-24 Thread Marcelo Laia
10,916 V looks a bit odd to me. After your comments, I looking forward about the battery voltage and I found this: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-choose-laptop-battery-king-sener/ "Voltage is closely related to the number of cells in the battery - typically a 10.8V battery has 6 cells and

Re: Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-24 Thread hw
_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 5000M > :~$ > > :~$ ls /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/ > 1-1 1-1.5 1-1.6 1-1.7 1-1.8 2-2 bind module uevent unbind usb1 > usb2 usb3 > :~$ > > After unplugging the power cable, i.e., the battery is discharging: > > After a few second

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-22 Thread David Wright
z > - Memory: > - Size: 16GB [ … ] > After unplugging the power cable, i.e., the battery is discharging: > > After a few seconds, the screen brightness is set to zero. The mouse > remains active, and I can use it for a few more seconds, when it > also becomes disabled. From the

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:49:54 -0300 Marcelo Laia wrote: > Thank you all for the invaluable assistance provided. Unfortunately, > the issue has resurfaced today. I don't believe it's related to the > age of the hardware, although my Inspiron 5547-A20 is from 2014, as > indicated below: A stab in t

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