ATTN: Aaron and other linux nerds[views:1822][posts:22]_____________________________________________________ [Nov 12,2006 12:50pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Do you know how to disable that terminal screen saver in RedHat/Fedora (maybe other distros, too)? I'm talking about the one that turns the screen black after awhile (not in the GUI). I remember looking briefly online for it before but kept seeing Gnome and KDE shit. I figured I'd ask here again before I go back to Mr. Google. |
| ____________________________________ [Nov 12,2006 3:20pm - anonymous ""] http://www.physics.uconn.edu/~qpeng/vnc/screensaverhowto.htm |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 12,2006 3:51pm - the_reverend ""] I know what you are talking about. I never pay attention to it. the link above is from an x-server. he's talking about when you are at the commandline, not when you have an x-server loaded. |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 12,2006 4:54pm - the_reverend ""] [img] |
| ____________________________________________________ [Nov 12,2006 6:50pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] the_reverend said:the link above is from an x-server. he's talking about when you are at the commandline, not when you have an x-server loaded. This is true. I knew I'd get a response about the thing I said I wasn't looking for. haha. At any rate, I'll do some research and dick around with it tomorrow at work and report back my findings. |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 12,2006 7:04pm - the_reverend ""] why would you need to turn it off? it sounds like a MB/BIOS setting |
| _____________________________ [Nov 12,2006 9:46pm - |an ""] It's the setterm command. Yea, screen blanking is fairly annoying. But it does give a warm fuzzy feeling knowing it's not just crashed, like a nice blank screen in Windows would indicate. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-disabl...en-blanking-screen-going-blank.html |
| ____________________________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 8:44am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] the_reverend said:why would you need to turn it off? it sounds like a MB/BIOS setting Who with the what now? What would the BIOS have to do with anything? |an said:It's the setterm command. Yea, screen blanking is fairly annoying. But it does give a warm fuzzy feeling knowing it's not just crashed, like a nice blank screen in Windows would indicate. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-disabl...en-blanking-screen-going-blank.html ahh, this looks like the answer. I'll have to give it a whirl later. Many thanks to you. |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 9:10am - the_reverend ""] in Powerstar/energystar BIOS there are settings for the monitors/harddrives. or at least there used to be. |
| _____________________________ [Nov 13,2006 9:30am - |an ""] That is an APM/ACPI setting, which will turn the monitor to low power mode |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 9:33am - Messerschmitt ""] you're all MAD! MAD i tell you! |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 9:38am - the_reverend ""] that is only one of the things that it can do. there are some BIOS settings for HD shutdown, CPU power cut when "idle", a ton more. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 9:42am - Messerschmitt ""] i wish i was smart |
| ______________________________ [Nov 13,2006 12:05pm - |an ""] the_reverend said:that is only one of the things that it can do. there are some BIOS settings for HD shutdown, CPU power cut when "idle", a ton more. Yea, of course, but I'm not going to recite the full ACPI implementation here when only the monitor shutoff is relevant :spineyes: Also, typically these options are taken care of by the OS nowadays. |
| _______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 12:20pm - the_reverend ""] ya dude. |
| _____________________________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 12:29pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] the_reverend said:in Powerstar/energystar BIOS there are settings for the monitors/harddrives. or at least there used to be. Oh yeah. I see what you're saying. But what I'm talking about doesn't involve turning the monitor off/low power at all. It simply turns the screen black until you hit a key. Similar to Windows' "blank" screen saver. The monitor is on full power the whole time. |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 2:03pm - the_reverend ""] yes, I know what that is. I do have a linux box ya know. |
| _________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 4:42pm - sxealex ""] if u use bash u can make a .profile file to automatically execute the setterm commands of choice under your user upon login i believe. i dunno about tcsh tho but isnt bash the default for fedora? |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 4:55pm - the_reverend ""] yes bash is. it's the default for most distros. but he's not yet in a shell. @ the log in prompt, you don't have a shell assigned yet. |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 13,2006 4:56pm - the_reverend ""] to get it there, you would need to put it in rc5.d or rc2.d |
| ____________________________________________________ [Nov 14,2006 8:40am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] the_reverend said:yes, I know what that is. I do have a linux box ya know. Then why are you talking about APM, you silly? |
| ______________________________________ [Nov 14,2006 9:30am - the_reverend ""] because I have a linux box? |
| ____________________________________________________ [Nov 14,2006 3:31pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] There has been a severe communicaions error. |