[Fwd: [ale] Turning off screen blanking in X]

[Chris Egolf]

Chris Egolf wrote:
> 
> Fulton Green wrote:
> >
> > Depending on the workstation's setup, you should be able to add these
> > cmds to .xinitrc or .Xsession or some variation thereof.
> >
> I've actually tried those, but I'm not sure I did it right.  I didn't
> have those files originally, so I had to create them.  They've got to
> have the execute bit turned on if I understand how they work, right?
> 
> When I tried putting them in .xinitrc, the startx would crap out and
> die.  I've tried putting them in an .xsession (or .Xsession -- I've seen
> both referred to) that looked like this:
> 
> [cegolf at kenny cegolf]$ cat .Xsession
> #!/bin/sh
> xset s noblank
> xset s noexpose
> xset s off
> xset dpms 0 0 0
> xset dpms off
> 
> Either way, when I startup an xterm and type 'xset -q' it shows that
> blanking is still on.
> 
> > If you're using a display manager (the graphical login prompt thing), you'll
> > probably need to add those lines somewhere in its initialisation script as
> > well.
> >
> 
> Right now, I'm not, but again, I'd like it to work either way.
> 
> > Come to think of it, seems like there are some standard init scripts that
> > are loaded for each type of user environment before the user's scripts are
> > exec'd. Anybody know?
> >
> 
> Yes, I'd like this to be a system wide setting, if possible.  It's not a
> HUGE deal, but I don't want to have to do this for each user.
> 
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