FC3 annoyances (blanking and blanking)

[Ofer Nave]

Hello!  I'm new to Fedora... just installed FC3.  There are two 
annoyances that I haven't found a way around, and I was hoping to get 
help here.

1) I can't find a way to stop the screen from blanking after a while.  I 
tried the screensaver settings, the power settings, and xset s off...  
nothing has worked so far.

2) I used to use SecureCRT to ssh into linux boxes for development, and 
when I used man or less, the last screen would remain visible after 
pressing 'q' to return to the prompt.  Now that I'm using X, it 
disappears when I quit.  I've tried xterm, konsole, and gnome term - all 
have the same behavior.

Thanks!

-ofer

[Keith Sharp]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 23:07 -0800, Ofer Nave wrote:
> Hello!  I'm new to Fedora... just installed FC3.  There are two 
> annoyances that I haven't found a way around, and I was hoping to get 
> help here.
> I can't find a way to stop the screen from blanking after a while.  I
>
> tried the screensaver settings, the power settings, and xset s off...  
> nothing has worked so far.

This is a pain for me to, in particular when giving presentations on my
laptop using ooimpress in full screen mode.  It would be cool if running
applications in full screen mode (ooimpress, totem, etc) could
automagically turn off all forms of screen blanking.

Keith.

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 12.03.2005 kl. 10.46 skrev Keith Sharp:
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 23:07 -0800, Ofer Nave wrote:
> > Hello!  I'm new to Fedora... just installed FC3.  There are two 
> > annoyances that I haven't found a way around, and I was hoping to get 
> > help here.
> > I can't find a way to stop the screen from blanking after a while.  I
> >
> > tried the screensaver settings, the power settings, and xset s off...  
> > nothing has worked so far.
>
> This is a pain for me to, in particular when giving presentations on my
> laptop using ooimpress in full screen mode.  It would be cool if running
> applications in full screen mode (ooimpress, totem, etc) could
> automagically turn off all forms of screen blanking.
>
> Keith.

There is a bug# in bugzilla about this - check under fc3->xscreensaver

[Gijs Hollestelle]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:07:16 -0800, Ofer Nave  wrote:
> Hello!  I'm new to Fedora... just installed FC3.  There are two
> annoyances that I haven't found a way around, and I was hoping to get
> help here.
> 2) I used to use SecureCRT to ssh into linux boxes for development, and
> when I used man or less, the last screen would remain visible after
> pressing 'q' to return to the prompt.  Now that I'm using X, it
> disappears when I quit.  I've tried xterm, konsole, and gnome term - all
> have the same behavior.

This is caused by ncurses that restores the screen after you quit
less, if you pass -X to less it doesn't do this. To make less use -X
automaticly put something like:

export LESS="-X"

Into your startup script (this will also work for manual pages as
these are displayed using less by default)

Greets,
   Gijs

[Ofer Nave]

Gijs Hollestelle wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:07:16 -0800, Ofer Nave  wrote:
> > Hello!  I'm new to Fedora... just installed FC3.  There are two
> > annoyances that I haven't found a way around, and I was hoping to get
> > help here.
> > 2) I used to use SecureCRT to ssh into linux boxes for development, and
> > when I used man or less, the last screen would remain visible after
> > pressing 'q' to return to the prompt.  Now that I'm using X, it
> > disappears when I quit.  I've tried xterm, konsole, and gnome term - all
> > have the same behavior.
>
> This is caused by ncurses that restores the screen after you quit
> less, if you pass -X to less it doesn't do this. To make less use -X
> automaticly put something like:
>
> export LESS="-X"
>
> Into your startup script (this will also work for manual pages as
> these are displayed using less by default)
>
> Greets,
>   Gijs

It works!  Thanks.

Problem #2 solved.  Anyone have any ideas for problem 1?  (screen blanking)

-ofer

[David Christopher Chiipman]

Hi Ofer,

To fix your screensaver problem, got to Screensaver, on the
Preferences sub menu of the Red Hat menu (click on the red hat in the
lower left corner of your screen). In the screen saver preferences,
select the Mode drop-down list. The option you want is Disable
Screensaver. Good luck,

-David

[Ofer Nave]

David C. Chipman wrote:
> Hi Ofer,
> To fix your screensaver problem, got to Screensaver, on the
>
> Preferences sub menu of the Red Hat menu (click on the red hat in the
> lower left corner of your screen). In the screen saver preferences,
> select the Mode drop-down list. The option you want is Disable
> Screensaver. Good luck,
> 	-David

This was the first thing I did when I began trying to solve this 
problem.  :)  Doesn't work.

-ofer