On Saturday 20 June 2020 20:03:06 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 20 Jun 2020 at 18:30:14 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 20 June 2020 18:22:56 davidson wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > I am running an app that gets messed up if the screen blanker > > > > kicks in, so I used xset to shut off dpms. Has no effect. So > > > > how do I shut the screen blanker down for the jobs duration? > > > > Building a device to rock the mouse back and forth at 1 minute > > > > intervals seems like a huge waste of time and metal cutting > > > > tools to make it. > > > > > > > > So, how can I kill the blanker for several hours or all > > > > day/night if need be? > > > > > > What is your Desktop Environment? > > > > TDE r14.0.8, on stretch. > > So did you tell TDE in the approved manner to run those commands? > or just put them in a file called .xsession. Does TDE even read > .xsession? Is TDE part of Debian, or does it have a list of its own? > > Cheers, > David. That is essentially what I am bugging their list about.
Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
