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Screen going blank?

Started by defurman , Jan 05 2011 06:50 AM

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#1 defurman

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 06:50 AM

I am running Crunchbang Linux and think its one of the best distro's i have tried but can someone tell me how to stop the screen from going blank every so often please!

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Posted 05 January 2011 - 08:42 AM

Maybe it has something to do with the disclaimer:

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#3 1002 Richard S

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Posted 09 January 2011 - 10:37 AM

Is it possibly the screensaver settings? I'm not sure how to check that in the Debian-based version as I used the Ubuntu-based version some months ago.

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Posted 09 January 2011 - 03:15 PM

Below is a copy of a post that I found with a Google search :

here is what I have found that worked. This has removed the screen saver which is ok for me.
I did a this from the root directory in a terminal.

sudo find -iname autostart.sh

This returned
./home/[yourusername]/openbox/autostart.sh
./etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh
./etc/skel/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

then I did this

sudo vim /etc/[yourusername]/openbox/autostart.sh
and in
sudo vim /etc/skel/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

and commented out this line in autostart.sh

#gnome-screensaver &

I also removed them
sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver
sudo apt-get remove gnome-power-manager

Here is a link to the original forum discussion :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-stop-the-screen-blanking-on-crunchbang-linux-732756/

Here is a forum discussion on the subject at the crunchbang linux forum :
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/229/disable-screensaver/

Hope this helps,
Ramchu