rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen >blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a
closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests.
xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an 11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came across a dangerous situation yesterday.
Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out
till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black
screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to wake it up.
That monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned off
only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be years.
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a
screen and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an
office environment.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ]
came across a dangerous situation yesterday.
Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping
by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me
out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a
black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to
wake it up.
That monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned
off only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be
years.
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a
screen
and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an
office environment.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
xfce4 desktop,
screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests.
xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an 11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came across a dangerous situation yesterday.
Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till
I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black screen.
This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to wake it up.
That monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned off
only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be years.
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a screen and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an office environment.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
- most of the desktop environments incorporate some element of screen
blanking for security (or power saving).
¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard,
to defeat it.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed >> garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests.
[...]
You have provided lots of details which don't help us help you. But,
alas, you left out the interesting tidbits :-)
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen
blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly, the one you are after is DPMS, where the monitor
is signalled (via the VESA DPMS mechanism) to shut off.
Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page
for all the gory details. This [1] is a good overview for all the
other things you might want to try.
Most desktop environments have a set of buttons and dials to achieve
the same. That said, I don't "do" DEs, so I might be lying here.
For Wayland, you'd have to ask someone smarter than me.
Hope this gives you some leads to follow.
Cheers
[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/67355/how-do-i-completely-turn-off-screensaver-and-power-management
On 8/26/24 12:46, [email protected] wrote:
Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off" [...]
That apparently turned it off for this boot.
so It is always turned off? I think its runnin x, not wayland.
AArch64 debian, what do I remove to totally disable the screen blanker? I don't even want it installed. in other words, noblank for the next 20 years.... Apparently it is running wayland, and I can't run sudo synapticc.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen
blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the screensaver.
Good luck!
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed >> garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests.
[...]
You have provided lots of details which don't help us help you. But,
alas, you left out the interesting tidbits :-)
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen
blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
There are many incarnations of screen blankers, so there are different incantations. Possibly, the one you are after is DPMS, where the monitor
is signalled (via the VESA DPMS mechanism) to shut off.
Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page
for all the gory details. This [1] is a good overview for all the
other things you might want to try.
Most desktop environments have a set of buttons and dials to achieve
the same. That said, I don't "do" DEs, so I might be lying here.
For Wayland, you'd have to ask someone smarter than me.
Hope this gives you some leads to follow.
Cheers
[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/67355/how-do-i-completely-turn-off-screensaver-and-power-management
tomas@ wrote:
Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would
disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page
for all the gory details. This [1] is a good overview for all the
other things you might want to try.
That apparently turned it off for this boot. Where do I do it in the
boot so It is always turned off?
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, gene heskett wrote:
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a
closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests.
xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an
11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came
across a dangerous situation yesterday.
Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by
hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out
till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black
screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to wake it up. >>
That monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned off
only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be years.
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a
screen and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an
office environment.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen
blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
the debian folks do a pretty good job of packaging for most folks
you can disable and uninstall till the cows come home
the next update and it's right back
sometimes you need to treat the system like a child and enforce the rules
ls -l /usr/bin/xscreensaver
i do
chmod 644 /usr/bin/xscreensaver
chattr +i /usr/bin/xscreensaver
this usually works
then add this to a file i keep of things i modify
gene heskett composed on 2024-08-27 10:14 (UTC-0400):
tomas@ wrote:
Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would
disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page
for all the gory details. This [1] is a good overview for all the
other things you might want to try.
That apparently turned it off for this boot. Where do I do it in the
boot so It is always turned off?
Create a new file whose name begins with two digits in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/. Put
it in your new file. The digits you choose determine in what order among the other
files there it will be applied. I would try 45, but it may not even matter.
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ]
came across a dangerous situation yesterday.
Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping
by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me
out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a
black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to
wake it up.
Surely it's not screen /blanking/ that's your problem¹ but screen
/locking/. BTW were you really logging back in, or just unlocking
the session?
If the machine starts, while trying to wake it up and log back in to get control back to me, its already 5 seconds too damned late. With the pi,That monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned
off only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be
years.
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a
screen
tomas mentioned xset, which should deal with that. You need to decide
on whether a couple of seconds is too long to wait for recovery from
anything more than simple blanking.
and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an
office environment.
That's the troublesome one for you.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen
blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
AFAICT you need to investigate XFCE's Power Manager. A quick google
turned up these:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-disable-auto-black-screen/127827/2
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13535
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/lock-screen-vs-login-screen/166644
but there may be better ones too.
¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard,
to defeat it.
Cheers,
David.
.
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed >> garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests.
Gene,
First things first: where did the image come from?
Is it originally from Raspberry Pi OS?
If not, is it from raspi.debian.net and originally built from *Debian* sources?
32 or 64 bit? Exact version string from uname -a please
By Rod.xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an
11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came
across a dangerous situation yesterday.
rt-preempt kernel - so home built?
linuxcnc - your install or the Debian-provided package?debian's lcnc-2.9 with some later patches. I'm used to running
Sure, if the puter has the hp, why notBasically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by
hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till >> I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black screen.
This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to wake it up.
You have a real time kernel to reduce latency but also put a desktop on there?
You have two incompatible use cases and there has to be some compromise.
I used the package manager, usually synaptic, I assume Rod used aThat monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned off
only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be years.
How - and from where did you install XFCE?
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a screen >> and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an office
environment.
XFCE settings should do it - _your_ requirement for screen blanking is not everyone's requirement for screen blanking / security. People's needs vary
- most of the desktop environments incorporate some element of screen blanking
for security (or power saving).
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen
blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
"How to disable screen blanking in XFCE" into a search engine yields https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=8303
Last comment is
"Go to application menu, then hover over settings. One of the options should Power Manager. In there click on display. Turn off Display Power Management.
Do Not Go Through All Settings"
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Hope this helps - all best, as ever,
Andy Cater
([email protected])
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
.
On 8/26/24 14:25, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
Gene,
First things first: where did the image come from?
32 or 64 bit? Exact version string from uname -a please
64 bit arm64 debian bookworm, modified with a later rt kernal to run linuxcnc, built for me by an aussie named Rod Webster,, RT kernels are not a problem. This one has more latency that one I built about a decade back but good enough to run lcnc in real time with no stuttering. 200microsecs, mine is much faster at 12. Its a 4.19 I actually built on the pi, armhf flavor.
In case its not obvious, linuxcnc generally runs in its own little world. Your code base moves several times faster than ours. I built this machine a decade ago just to see if a pi3b could do it. It could but stumbled a bit, with a pi4b, its kool at twice the speed. Stepper driven, its also a showcase for the newest motor tech, stepper/servo's. Several more times more accurate than normal steppers. And the motors run much cooler. You see that in your power bill.
rt-preempt kernel - so home built?By Rod.
linuxcnc - your install or the Debian-provided package?
debian's lcnc-2.9 with some later patches. I'm used to running 3.0/master on this machine as I've played the canary in the coal mine for that last 2 decades. Finding problems hopefully before they bite a shop producing a profit. But my next bday will be my 90th so I'm scaling back. We are 100% volunteer, doing this either because we are retired and have the time(me & several others), or are involved because of the $dayjob.
You have a real time kernel to reduce latency but also put a desktop on there?Sure, if the puter has the hp, why not
You have two incompatible use cases and there has to be some compromise.
.
How - and from where did you install XFCE?I used the package manager, usually synaptic, I assume Rod used a similar procedure. It worked, I didn't ask.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
"How to disable screen blanking in XFCE" into a search engine yields https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=8303
Last comment is
"Go to application menu, then hover over settings. One of the options should Power Manager. In there click on display. Turn off Display Power Management.
Do Not Go Through All Settings"
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
Hope this helps - all best, as ever,
Thanks Andy.
Andy Cater
([email protected])
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
On 8/26/24 14:37, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ]
came across a dangerous situation yesterday.
Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping
by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me
out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a
black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to wake it up.
Surely it's not screen /blanking/ that's your problem¹ but screen /locking/. BTW were you really logging back in, or just unlocking
the session?
total login to get back to my session.
That monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned
off only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be years.
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a screen
tomas mentioned xset, which should deal with that. You need to decideIf the machine starts, while trying to wake it up and log back in to
on whether a couple of seconds is too long to wait for recovery from anything more than simple blanking.
get control back to me, its already 5 seconds too damned late. With
the pi, wakeup time is 5 + seconds by which time a sleeve caught on a
chuck jaw has already tried to rip an arm off.
and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an
office environment.
That's the troublesome one for you.
Absolutely. This is not an office environment. The path thru this
garage is hardly wide enough for me, let alone company.
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
AFAICT you need to investigate XFCE's Power Manager. A quick google
turned up these:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-disable-auto-black-screen/127827/2
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13535
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/lock-screen-vs-login-screen/166644
but there may be better ones too.
David Wright composed on 2024-08-26 14:36 (UTC-0400):
¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard,
to defeat it.
Are you sure?
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote:
That I'm assuming is canceled by the next reboot. And I get killed by >linuxcnc starting up while I can't see it. So to make it permanent,
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the
screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me
again.
Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the
screensaver.
Good luck!
either uninstall the perpetrator, or put something into /etc/Xsessions
or its option file. The question is what do I do to make it permanent?
On 8/27/24 21:03, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 15:42:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote:
David Wright composed on 2024-08-26 14:36 (UTC-0400):
¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard,Are you sure?
to defeat it.
Well, all four of the laptops in this house, the previous two we
disposed of, and all the assorted keybords I've acquired over the
last twenty years or so
My last lappy was disposed of 10 years ago. The touchpad interface was
the least of its problems.
But finding the safest key to use may be irrelevant if Gene doesn't
trust even basic screen blanking to occur (see above).
Sorry but you don't understand the problem David. I could be killed
while trying to log back into it, and the 30 seconds it takes to login
again, when I could stop it with one keypress w/o that damned blanker.
On Tue 27 Aug 2024 at 14:58:14 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
On 8/26/24 14:37, David Wright wrote:
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ]
came across a dangerous situation yesterday.
Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in leaving linuxcnc live but hidden behind a black screen. This is a dangerous condition if he wrong key is hit to
wake it up.
Surely it's not screen /blanking/ that's your problem¹ but screen /locking/. BTW were you really logging back in, or just unlocking
the session?
total login to get back to my session.
How did you distinguish between the two cases?
That monitor AND the idling rpi4b draw about 22 watts, and is turned off only for maintenance. UPS, standby generator, uptimes might be years.
Replacing a CRT power hungry monitor means the only reason to blank a screen
tomas mentioned xset, which should deal with that. You need to decide on whether a couple of seconds is too long to wait for recovery from anything more than simple blanking.If the machine starts, while trying to wake it up and log back in to
get control back to me, its already 5 seconds too damned late. With
the pi, wakeup time is 5 + seconds by which time a sleeve caught on a chuck jaw has already tried to rip an arm off.
Agreed, but my paragraph was distinguishing between simple blanking
and powersaving. (Of course you don't want to be typing a password.)
In the past, I found the instant recovery from blanking (with no powersaving) was quite satisfactory, while preventing burn-in from
being run 24/7. (This was in a lab with restricted access.)
and interpose a login is security against prying eyes in an
office environment.
That's the troublesome one for you.
Absolutely. This is not an office environment. The path thru this
garage is hardly wide enough for me, let alone company.
There are plenty of google hits on this topic, some posted by people
who get fed up logging in over and over again in meetings. Various
OSes plus xfce.org itself. Have you made any progress yourself? I get
the impression
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again.
There are odd reports of a very long timeout working better than Off. Perhaps bear that in mind.
AFAICT you need to investigate XFCE's Power Manager. A quick google turned up these:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-disable-auto-black-screen/127827/2
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13535
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/lock-screen-vs-login-screen/166644
but there may be better ones too.
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote:
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the
screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me
again.
Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the
screensaver.
byThat I'm assuming is canceled by the next reboot. And I get killed
Good luck!
/etc/Xsessionslinuxcnc starting up while I can't see it. So to make it permanent,
either uninstall the perpetrator, or put something into
permanent?or its option file. The question is what do I do to make it
Disabling it in settings *is* permanent.
--
Trish Fraser, VVMZ4 91L2V -35.67910, 142.66607
Wed 28 Aug 2024 11:31:10 AEST
GNU/Linux 1997-2024 #283226 counter.li.org
andromeda up up 1 hour, 7 minutes
Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
kernel 6.1.0-23-amd64
George.</div><div><br></div>
On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote:
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote:
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the
screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me
again.
Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the
screensaver.
If this helps anyone, my comment is: I don't use screensavers
either, so as described above, in XFCE's Power Manager, Display tab, I
set 'Blank after' to 'Never', 'Put to sleep after' to 'Never', 'Switch
off after' to 'Never, and then I select the "Display power management"
slider to off.
In XFCE's Session and Startup, General tab, I unchecked "Lock screen
before sleep".
I cannot remember making any other changes that are relevant to screen
savers or power management.
I made these settings a year or so go, I have not had need to reapply
these settings (after updates or power off/on), and my screen does not
go blank while I am using my computer, my two monitors just continue
to show my linux screens.
On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote:
On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote:
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote:
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the
screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me
again.
Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the
screensaver.
If this helps anyone, my comment is: I don't use screensavers
either, so as described above, in XFCE's Power Manager, Display tab, I
set 'Blank after' to 'Never', 'Put to sleep after' to 'Never', 'Switch
off after' to 'Never, and then I select the "Display power management"
slider to off.
In XFCE's Session and Startup, General tab, I unchecked "Lock screen
before sleep".
I cannot remember making any other changes that are relevant to screen
savers or power management.
I made these settings a year or so go, I have not had need to reapply
these settings (after updates or power off/on), and my screen does not
go blank while I am using my computer, my two monitors just continue
to show my linux screens.
And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login
again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by confusing the unlocking screen with a login screen? Being DE-less, I haven't seen
either screen, and am unable to make a judgment, but several webpages mentioned that confusion.
Cheers,
David.
.
On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote:
On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote:
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote:
Soooo, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the
screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me
again.
Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the
screensaver.
If this helps anyone, my comment is: I don't use screensavers
either, so as described above, in XFCE's Power Manager, Display tab, I
set 'Blank after' to 'Never', 'Put to sleep after' to 'Never', 'Switch
off after' to 'Never, and then I select the "Display power management"
slider to off.
In XFCE's Session and Startup, General tab, I unchecked "Lock screen
before sleep".
I cannot remember making any other changes that are relevant to screen
savers or power management.
I made these settings a year or so go, I have not had need to reapply
these settings (after updates or power off/on), and my screen does not
go blank while I am using my computer, my two monitors just continue
to show my linux screens.
And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login
again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by confusing the unlocking screen with a login screen? Being DE-less, I haven't seen
either screen, and am unable to make a judgment, but several webpages mentioned that confusion.
Cheers,
David.
.
On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote:
And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login
again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by confusing the unlocking screen with a login screen? Being DE-less, I haven't seen
either screen, and am unable to make a judgment, but several webpages mentioned that confusion.
Picking nits David, the effect is exactly the same, plus 2-4 seconds
to actually restore the screen to the linuxcnc control gui. Presumably
the pi has to pull the gui back out of swap or cache, which is
potentially dangerous which is reason enough to disable it forever. I
have not gotten around to moving that stuff to a much faster SSD on a
USB3 interface. Even a 128GB u-sd is slower by far.
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 715 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 157:23:25 |
| Calls: | 12,093 |
| Calls today: | 1 |
| Files: | 15,000 |
| Messages: | 6,517,751 |
