Have you tried leaving the screen alone for about 10 minutes? Screen blanking is the default linux kernel behavior since almost the beginning. I think the time is 10 minutes of inactivity.

If you're not seeing the screen go blank, you may have a jittery mouse that is preventing it from activating.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM, David Fixdavidf@mrxfx.com wrote:

Hey guys,

I've done a ton of googling, searching and asking in the forums, etc, and I haven't found a way to do this...  :)

I'm trying to find a way of having some type of screen saver at the login screen so that if I leave a machine not logged into, it won't burn-in the screen.

Does anyone know of a way to achieve this?  In specific, I'd love to have it simply blank the screen and leave the screen on, just black after maybe 5 minutes of inactivity at the login screen.  :)

Thanks in advance, it's really appreciated!  :)

Dave