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Offline remus

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MC 9 Screen blank / screen saver
« on: May 14, 2018, 11:27:07 PM »
Hi all,

Sorry if this sounds like a realy stupid question.

I was wondering how I set MC to blank the screen after x minutes of no keyboard input ?

Thanks :)
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Offline curaga

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Re: MC 9 Screen blank / screen saver
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2018, 12:32:33 AM »
See man setterm
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Re: MC 9 Screen blank / screen saver
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2018, 06:35:53 PM »
See man setterm

Feed back much appreciated curaga.

My results with setterm experiments from the command line

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$ setterm
-sh: setterm: not found

Perhaps its a part of a tcz package.

I'll have to learn how to use appbrowser to search the tcz's for it.
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Re: MC 9 Screen blank / screen saver
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2018, 06:44:35 PM »
Hi remus
You can find  setterm  in  util-linux.tcz.

Offline remus

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Re: MC 9 Screen blank / screen saver
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2018, 08:35:15 PM »
Thanks to all contributors to this solution.

I've installed

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tce-load -wi util-linux

setterm --blank 3

I also added
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setterm --blank 3to my /opt/bootlocal.sh file.

Saved work
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filetool.sh -b
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