Turn off screensaver

[nomko]

Hello all,

I have a desktop system (P4 - 3.0 GHz.) which runs Lubuntu 12.04. Whenever i'm watching a movie on youtube, the screensaver turns my screen blank. How do i switch off the screenssaver completely? Is it a sort of a deamon which can be disabled or removed?

Any help will be very much appreciated!

[ShadowCat8]

Well,

To start with, do you know which screensaver app you are running? gnome-screensaver, kscreensaver or xscreensaver?

Any way you slice it, there should be a way to control it under Preferences -> ScreenSaver, but how to configure it will likely depend on which one you are running.

HTH. Let us know.

[reginaldperrin]

There are potential issues with Nvidia drivers in 12.10. It can be "cured" by switching your graphics driver to the Nouveau free and open source one.
I had the same screen blanking issues, and switching fixed it immediately. I had tried all the settings I could find, but none worked. It didnt want to behave itself.
HAving said switch, you might find some minor text-display glitches, but you'll have to decide what is worse - having to keep moving the mouse every ten mintues when wayching movies, or a few lines where the text seems a little scrambled until it's redrawn.

[Siddly]

There are potential issues with Nvidia drivers in 12.10. It can be "cured" by switching your graphics driver to the Nouveau free and open source one.
I had the same screen blanking issues, and switching fixed it immediately. I had tried all the settings I could find, but none worked. It didnt want to behave itself.
HAving said switch, you might find some minor text-display glitches, but you'll have to decide what is worse - having to keep moving the mouse every ten mintues when wayching movies, or a few lines where the text seems a little scrambled until it's redrawn.

I have been running kernels 3.7-rc2 and now 3.7-rc3 with the NVidia kernel module 310.14 with no issues.
root@sdrbox:~# uname -r
3.7.0-rc3+
root@sdrbox:~# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 310.14 Tue Oct 9 11:52:41 PDT 2012
GCC version: gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1)
root@sdrbox:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"

[fenario]

Hello all,

I have a desktop system (P4 - 3.0 GHz.) which runs Lubuntu 12.04. Whenever i'm watching a movie on youtube, the screensaver turns my screen blank. How do i switch off the screenssaver completely? Is it a sort of a deamon which can be disabled or removed?

Any help will be very much appreciated!

Hi

In Preferences > Startup Applications > you can disable screensaver by unchecking it there.

Hope that works for you.

fen

[fenario]

And if you cannot see that in startup type or copy and paste this in a terminal:
sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

[nomko]

There are potential issues with Nvidia drivers in 12.10.

If you have read my post more carefully, then you could read that i'm using Lubuntu 12.04.

[nomko]

In Preferences > Startup Applications > you can disable screensaver by unchecking it there.

Hi fenario,

Done that, it didn listed there.

[nomko]

And if you cannot see that in startup type or copy and paste this in a terminal:
sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

Haven't tried this command. I'll try this out and let you know if this helped.

[anotherzeb]

Hello all,

I have a desktop system (P4 - 3.0 GHz.) which runs Lubuntu 12.04. Whenever i'm watching a movie on youtube, the screensaver turns my screen blank. How do i switch off the screenssaver completely? Is it a sort of a deamon which can be disabled or removed?

Any help will be very much appreciated!

Might be worth trying:

xset -dpms

to disable the X server energy saver