[Gllug] Turning off screensaver

[Walid Shaari]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 12:18, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to turn off the blanking of the text console?
> 
> We have a machine that keeps dying and it doesn't have a keyboard or monitor
> plugged into it normally.  I'd like to be able to plug in a monitor when it
> has died and see if there are any messages on the screen.  The problem is
> that the screen is blanked and needs a keypress to wake up.  It's not really
> a very important machine and it would be inconvenient to plug a keyboard and
> monitor in permanently but if turning off the screen blanking is non-trivial
> i'll do it.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-19.html

setterm -blank 0

if you have X then its
 xset s 0

hth

Walid




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