some pcmanfm weirdness

[huffpuff]

I noticed on my system that pcmanfm had issues - specifically complaining about mounting partitions from the side pane although navigating to the mnt folder mounted the partitions fine. Adding a simple mount command in X.d seem to sort this ok. In addition pcmanfm does not seem to be customisable to offer a 'clean' delete option - instead everything goes to the trash.

Problem is that on my system pcmanfm complains when I click on trash with 'operation not permitted'.

I solved this by installing gvfs and running pcmanfm with dbus-launch....

However after installing gvfs my preferred terminal [sakura] has stopped taking input - I mean the terminal runs but the nothing is working. xterm is unaffected. Strange. Any ideas?

[Juanito]

Do you need this:

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$ cat ~/.X.d/dbus
dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session


[huffpuff]

Nope. Lxterminal doesn't work either. Just installed. They have a lot of mutual dependencies with gvfs so this has broken them somehow.

[huffpuff]

Ok I ran the dbus-launch for the session from .xinetrc with:

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dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session openbox
but the terminal probs remain for evilvte, lxterminal, & sakura. So I removed gvfs & the dbus-launch stuff and now all is well again except for the trash 'operation not permitted' thingy.

Seems though that there is an option in preferences for pcmanfm to turn off trash & delete without further ado [which I prefer anyway]. Now trash has gone and I'm glad of it as my sanity was threatening to go if it stayed....

Now for the next bug - why does the screensaver keep interrupting my vlc playback? Hmmm.

[beerstein]

Hi: I also would like to know how to disable the screensaver?

Does anybody know and can help me?

Thank you so much in advance

[gerald_clark]

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf add the following:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "blank time" "0"
    Option "standby time" "0"
    Option "suspend time" "0"
    Option "off time" "0"
EndSection

[SamK]

Hi: I also would like to know how to disable the screensaver?

My memory is a little hazy on this but in the past I have disabled it using the xset command.  Have a look at

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xset --help 
It was run at boot-up from /opt/bootlocal.sh or ~/.X.d
   

[huffpuff]

I don't want to disable my screensaver cos I like it but, on the other hand, I don't like it so much that I want it arriving during a movie.

If, like me, you are running xscreensaver then 'xscreensaver-command -prefs' will allow you to configure it or even disable it.

I don't want to disable it I just want to stop its anomalous behaviour of popping in while I'm watching something salacious on vlc.

Will Gerald's solution do that I wonder.

[huffpuff]

Ah I do seem to remember that before I installed xscreensaver screen blanking would also interrupt vlc playback. I could try:

xset s off

which would disable the screen blanking.

See:

http://linuxreviews.org/quicktips/screenblanking/