Disabling screen saver

GaryLa wrote: I've disabled them, I've set them to an hour, to 10 hours and every which way. No difference. Obviously there's yet another place it's being controlled.

Have you tried linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum/18-...r?limitstart=0#55601

Not yet. But when a user posted "what's the big deal, just change the screensaver" I felt compelled to answer him -- the screensaver parms are not effective.

I need to do some research on what else is affected by this "dpms" setting. A guy named Steve Rosenberg posted on his blog the following suggestion:

sleep 200
xset dpms 0 0 0
exit 0

He suggests the sleep is needed (at boot) because other parts of xfce seemed to change his settings later in the boot sequence. But he found that setting them after a delay worked. I haven't looked into any of it yet.

I also found this: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Power_Management_Signaling . It's interesting that it states "Warning: XScreenSaver and xfce4-power-manager use their own DPMS settings and override xset configuration".

It's not the end of the world, it's just annoying.

GaryLa wrote: He suggests the sleep is needed (at boot) because other parts of xfce seemed to change his settings later in the boot sequence.

That is why setting it from the LinuxCNC INI file is a good idea.

It's not the end of the world, it's just annoying.

It's a lot worse than annoying when you only have a touch-screen to wake the machine up again and don't know what you are going to hit..

Is it possible to set in the linuxcnc.ini file, or is that a wish?

Ray M

RayJr wrote: Is it possible to set in the linuxcnc.ini file, or is that a wish?

Dewey showed how to do it in the INI file here:
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...r?limitstart=0#55601