Re: FC5: screensavers/screen blanking redux

[Alastair Neil]

On 5/4/06, Jim Lowman <jmlowman(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; wrote:
>  It looks like I didn't communicate my problem effectively.
>
>  I did a clean install of FC5 (32-bit) on my Dell 8500 laptop.
>  When I go to System->Preferences->Screensaver under Gnome,
>  the interface is decidedly different than that of FC4.  For example,
>  the checkboxes where individual screensavers can be selected are
>  missing.  I *think* what I need is to be able to do is deselect the one
>  that
>  represents a blank screen, or there is something in power management
>  that is causing the display to blank after a while; perhaps 10 minutes.
>
>  Any insight will be much appreciated.  I realize that this is a trivial
>  matter in the big picture, but I would like to have things working in
>  FC5 that worked in FC4.
>
>  Jim 

No what you need to do is disable blanking in the Xserver.  As I explained
before the command is "xset s off".  If you want this to be persistant edit
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common and append something like this:

if [ -x /usr/bin/xset ]; then
      /usr/bin/xset s off
fi