[CentOS] screen saver under centos 5

Ioannis Vranos ivranos at freemail.gr
Mon Apr 30 17:48:20 UTC 2007


Jerry Geis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using centos 5. I need the screen to always be on.
> I have gone into System -> Preferences -> Screen saver
> and then I unchecked the "Activate screen saver when computer is IDLE" 
> setting.
> I also edited the xorg.conf and commented out the dpms line.
> 
> However, my screen is still going into some kind of screen saver.
> 
> What else is there to disable?


Are you using the root account as a user account? I had screen blanking 
when I used to log in as root under SL 4.x.



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