I'm testing elive 3.18 but I do not understand how I can leave the screen of my PC always on. Can anyone help me?
The only way that I can think of is E24's "presentation" mode.
Try the "laptop tools configuration" or something like that...@Thanatermesis can you save me?
Another possible solution (which I use) is installing xscreensaver (thru synaptic Manager) and have it reside in /home/"my username"/.e16/startup-application.list. xscreensaver is in /usr/bin/xscreensaver I put the max time to 720 min; for me works like a treat
Its not the most elegant solution, but works for me on a 34" screen
Thanks.it works perfectly!
You're welcome Have fun with it!!! ..
Hum, the DPMS (screen blanking) can be managed with the xset command, it is not tested, by try with this command to see if works:
xset dpms 0 0 0
edit your startup applications like @freebsd124 suggested:
scite ~/.e16/startup-applications.list
and replace the xscreensaver line with the "xset" example command, then reboot and see if worked
I think that this option must be the default setting for the E16 desktop, since there's not a specific configurator, what do you* think?
Hi @Thanatermesis,
Took the xscreensaver out of the startup-applications.list and insert the command you suggested
I guess "xset dpms 0 0 0" doesn't have a timeout
Let you know what the result is.
edit: works like a charm!!! I must have been too impatient!!! ...
edit 2: screen blanking goes in after 15 min (bummer). Can I change that by editing the 0.0.0?
edit 3: Just looked up xset ; is there anything I can do anything with this?
Screen blanking is not set by the display manager (Xorg or wayland)...... my laptop screen also blanks after a while if I'm in rescue mode or TTY-1.
That setting is somewhere else and I suspect it has to do with power saving.
You might want to add the following line to .bashrc (startupapplications depends on X11 starting up):
setterm -powersave off -blank 0
or alternatively, try this one for "xset" in autostartapplications:
xset -dpms s off s noblank s 0 0 s noexpose
Hi @triantares,
Took up your alternative and put that in the startapplication.list and that did the trick
Thanks a lot for your input; at 71 I'm still learning ...
yeah, console blanking is a different blanking than the one of your graphical system
So, this command is the good one to disable blanking entirely on the graphical system on e16 ? (if so, let me add it in some parts of the system )
Yeah, on E24 one has to use "settings", "screen", "blanking" and turn it of.
Ok, maybe is not the best place but for now it is added to elive-reconfigurations (a startup script) which disables screen blanking by default in e16 desktops
Since we don't have a better way to configure it, its in any case better to simply not blank the screen to the user by default
Questions now are:
- do we should blank screen by default after X time? (what if you are watching a movie? spank!)
- do we should have a way to set the screen blanking? probably we should just ignore this "feature" and let it to user set it if wants to (by their own way)
UPDATE:
just run "apug", your screen will be not blanked anymore, no need for an entry in startup-applications
We do if we go the route of having a screensaver installed.
The issue is which one as none of them are very reliable.
Not sure about "smplayer" but IIRC "vlc" blocks blanking.
- and it doesn't work for E24, blanking has to be turned off explicitely (there's also the option there of turning off dpms).
make a tool for everything screen-related?
We might also want to install xscreensaver by default...i love screensavers lmao
xscreensaver works fine on a raspberry pi 3B, and those things are underpowered!! It's also pretty reliable, I don't know about your experiences tho
I meant as being unreliable in relation to lock screen i.e unwanted access to a machine.
We had a similar thread a while ago and eventually opted for "i3lock".