screensaver

[cast-fish]

hello

Please can you help me to prevent the annoying screensavers or screenblanking of tcl

i typed

xset s off    (in a terminal)

but the machine still seems to blank the screen after maybe 20 mins?

Vince.

[malikawan]

I think this link will help you

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,5647.msg30318.html#msg30318

Malik Awan

[Rich]

Hi cast-fish
Check your BIOS. Some machines have settings to shut down various peripherals after inactivity.

[cast-fish]

hello

it seems the command listed above here, will come into operation, after you restart X.

this machine does not seem to have -dpms handling or such like.


The bios is 13 years old. (although it may have some power features i don't remember
seeing any

Vince.

[tinypoodle]

xset s off    (in a terminal)

An xterm or a real terminal?

[tinypoodle]

it seems the command listed above here, will come into operation, after you restart X.

No, 'xset' will only apply to current X11 server.

[cast-fish]

Hello

so is it true that if we put the command

xset s off

into the .Xsession file   (it should stop the screensaver for every boot of tcl)

The screensaver seems to kick in when i am watching a movie in VLC or MPLAYER.


DO i put that command into that file in a similar fashion to the other comman examples.


many seem to start with a HYPHEN or a square open bracket


thanks

Vince.

[tinypoodle]

There is no sense in adding 'xset' to any file before you have verified it does what you want manually.

[cast-fish]

Hello

Don't really know.

I have a standard TCL boot from cdrom. I want to stop the screensaver kicking in.

how do i do this?

what is the command?

where do i put the command?

thanks

Vince.

[tinypoodle]

You already said in OP you did, but you never answered if by "terminal" you meant an xterm.

[cast-fish]

not sure

It is a "terminal" that is selected from the "system tools" menu.

So my question is compounded now.

1) How do i discover if the "screensaver" is active at all?   what is the command and where do i type it to discover this?

2) If the answer to 1) is yes.  How do i dissable this screensaver. What is the command and where do i type it for dissabling.

many thanks.

Vince.

[tinypoodle]

1)

Code: [Select]

xset q

2)

Code: [Select]

xset s off
xset -dpms


[cast-fish]

thanks a lot

it appears that DPMS was also causing an issue

it was enabled and had

Standby 1200 secs  Suspend 1800   off 2400

i had experienced the laptop completely shutting down where it would not come back
to life at all.....  (it just had a dull screen)

clearly that was dpms causing that....  (switched all the dpms off now aswell as the screensaver)


i could not really find it explained clearly anyplace......i mean about dpms's variuos settings
which still seem to work even on a 14 year old laptop and bios.

all sorted out now

another thing that can go unotticed with TCL is the cpu governor and throttling of the frequency
for saving..... which is applied to your chip.  It would be nice if people knew about that if they needed to and how to enable or disable it.

VInce.



Thanks
Vince.

[bmarkus]

another thing that can go unotticed with TCL is the cpu governor and throttling of the frequency
for saving..... which is applied to your chip.  It would be nice if people knew about that if they needed to and how to enable or disable it.

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:cpu_frequency_scaling_basics

[tinypoodle]

it was enabled and had

Standby 1200 secs  Suspend 1800   off 2400

Those seem to be default values as expected.

i could not really find it explained clearly anyplace......i mean about dpms's variuos settings
which still seem to work even on a 14 year old laptop and bios.

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xset.1.html