Re: disabling Linux's screen blanker

Alexandre Hautequest (hquest@istm.com.br)
Fri, 08 Oct 1999 08:34:04 -0300


Alain Toussaint wrote:
>
> Hello,
> i would like to know if there's a way to disable the screen blanker in
> linux ??

There is a utility called setterm that generally is called as follows
(in Slack's /etc/rc.d/rc.M):

(...)
# Tell the viewers what's going to happen...
echo "Going multiuser..."

# Screen blanks after 15 minutes idle time.
/bin/setterm -blank 15

# Look for a CD-ROM in a CD-ROM drive, and if one is found,
(...)

Change the time to 0 (and disable it).

>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Alain Toussaint

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