On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:16:52 -0700
"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" wrote:
> stan writes:
> > A quick search turned up these pages, which should get you a little
> > further on your journey.
> >
> > https://superuser.com/questions/152347/change-linux-console-screen-blanking-behavior
> >
> > https://unix
On 04/12/2018 03:16 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>
> stan writes:
>> On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700
>> Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
>>
>>> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and
>>> you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how
>>> that
On 04/13/18 06:16, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> stan writes:
>> On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700
>> Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
>>
>>> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and
>>> you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how
>>> that would w
stan writes:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700
> Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
>
>> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and
>> you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how
>> that would work from rc.local. How would I tell it to do that to a
On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700
Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and
> you want to change it for your current terminal. I'm not sure how
> that would work from rc.local. How would I tell it to do that to all
> the vt's? (I trie
stan writes:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:57:12 -0700
> Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
>
>> How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days?
>
> I use setterm --blank=60 to prevent the screens from blanking after
> whatever the default is (10 minutes?). I don't know where the actual
> set
On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:57:12 -0700
Wolfgang S Rupprecht wrote:
> How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days?
I use setterm --blank=60 to prevent the screens from blanking after
whatever the default is (10 minutes?). I don't know where the actual
setting is, though. But you co
How does one activate screen blanking on the vt's these days?
I have an ancient 32-bit x86 Acer mini laptop running as a server where
the X11 greeter just started crashing in a tight loop. I've turned the
graphical login off but that leaves me with the first vt's login prompt
displaying. Whatev
