Screensave

[Gregory J. Neumann]

Justin,

Look for a setting called "screenblank" or something like that, too.  I'm at 
work and no running Linux boxes ... :-( so I can't check it myself.
And I should have said a "bash shell", why I couldn't remember that, I don't 
know!

-Greg

> That may be exactly what it is.. It basically does a startx then runs .xintrc in the home to start 
> xmms. 
> 
> I put in the /etc/profile
> setterm -powersave off
> setterm -powerdown 0
> 
> and rebooted. I'll see tonight if it worked.
> 
> Thanks
> Justin
> 
> 
> Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
>     Do you have a bourne-again login anywhere?  If you do, the default script 
>     blanks the screen after 15 minutes.  Type "man setterm" to find how to 
>     change the setting, then check for a .profile file in your /home dir or a profile 
>     file in /etc .  Sorry, I usually invoke X from the command prompt after I log in 
>     on my Slackware box, so I don't know exactly know what happens in 
>     RedHat.
>     
>     HTH,
>     Greg
>     
>       
>     I have a PC being used as an mp3 player (old libretto) I have redhat 7.3 
>     on it, after about 10 minutes the screen will black out. I would like to 
>     keep the screen always on (got IRman and remote controll to controll 
>     it). I have no desktop running, just X and xmms. APMD is not running, 
>     got all power management turned off in the bios, any ideas whats 
>     blanking out the screen?
>     
>     Justin
>     
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