Terminal screen blanker

[gogalthorp]

I seem to have activated some terminal screen blanker.

in KDE
If I turn off my screen saver or set advanced options with mouse in a corner.

The screen goes blank after several minutes. I'd like to turn this off, trouble is I don't know how I turned it on. I believe I have all power saver option off. They don't work any way because I go through a KVM switch. I believe it is some terminal screen blanker option.

Anyone have a clue????

Thanks

[valan]

One (or both) of these commands might be needed to disable screen blanking

setterm -blank 0
xset s off

See the man pages for setterm and xset for more info

[gogalthorp]

Tried both. Does not work from a Konsole and a Virtual terminal 7 does not exist when X is down. I thought about .xinitrc but all that is in my home is .xinitrc.template. Can I just create a .xinitrc with the setterm commands or do I need to add the lines to the temp then copy to the regular file name?? I want this feature permanently off.

[valan]

xset doesn't work from konsole? What kind of error did it give? .xinitrc is for when you use startx, which I doubt you do because you don't have one. I forget how, but both KDE and Gnome both somehow allow you to run things on startup.

[gogalthorp]

xset -s off works but it turns off all screen savers. I just want to turn off the terminal screen blanker

setterm -blank 0 does not work from konsole (no error just does not shut the TB down) I believe it only effects the current terminal that it is run from. I need it to work on the terminal that X runs in. I expect there is a init file some where that is setting this but don't have any idea where to look. My web searches have pretty much come up nil.There seems to be a lack of doc's on the startup sequences. Can anyone point me to any info on the sequence of startup for KDE?

[valan]

Check the man page for xset, maybe there's something there for you.

[devils casper]

Can anyone point me to any info on the sequence of startup for KDE?

Desktop Environments have nothing to do with startup scripts except linking native Login Managers. DEs do not execute anything at startup.

KDE executes all scripts stored in ~/.kde/Autostart and/or ~/.kde/env folders after User logs in. In case Folders do not exist, create those.

[gogalthorp]

What about .xinitrc is that run before or after kde starts? What is the master script that controls the startup a user process. Knowing the exact startup sequence would make trouble shooting in general much easier. It seems to me that I might need to run the setterm command before X startup. I'll try it in a KDE startup script though.

Thanks

[devils casper]

System executes all processes listed in /etc/rc.d/rcS.d, /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and then scripts stored in /etc/profiles.d folder before starting Login Manager.

[gogalthorp]

Thanks. I know somewhere in there the blanker is turned on. Just need to find it.