On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:01:19AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 08:21 Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 07:14 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > > >> Tom Browder wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely > >> turn > >> > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings? > >> > >> There are three things that could be called screen saver > > > > ... > > > > Thanks, Dan, I'll try those and report back. > > > > My system didn't recognize anything you suggested except: > > # gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 0 > > Interestingly, all the other commands before AND AFTER the reboot responded: > > unable to open display ""
This one is because they have to "talk" to the right X server, so they need the DISPLAY env variable set, to know which one. On your (probably) single machine with (probably) just one X server and one display, try prefixing the command with a var setting like so: DISPLAY=:0 <my command with args> [...] Cheers -- t
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