Any way to prevent the screen from "blanking"? (Applet?)

[gosa]

Hi All,

Testing Cinnamon at the moment, and as I get more and more "accustomed" to it I start missing things.

One of them is the Inhibit applet in Gnome 2 that I could use to prevent the monitor from going to sleep. I've been checking the Cinnamon website, and I've skimmed through the threads here and I can't seem to find anything similar.

Would that be a difficult applet to write for someone with a bit more knowledge than me about these things (I myself have absolutely no idea)

Also - I find a menu item under preferences called "screen" (don't know if that one is Mate or Cinnamon actually) but there's no option to "Never" blank the screen, only different time values.

Thanks in advance,
/gosa

[lurkatron]

i too am missing a screensaver inhibit applet. the best solution ive found so far is to use the caffeine indicator. not an applet but it works and sits in the systray. just download a deb here https://launchpad.net/~caffeine-develop ... /+packages
if ur on the latest mint u want to get the oneiric version.

[gosa]

i too am missing a screensaver inhibit applet. the best solution ive found so far is to use the caffeine indicator. not an applet but it works and sits in the systray. just download a deb here https://launchpad.net/~caffeine-develop ... /+packages
if ur on the latest mint u want to get the oneiric version.

Checked out the link, but I'm a bit reluctant to try it, since the general advise is not to mix ubuntu stuff with Debian (Running LMDE)

[zerozero]

gosa,
one option is to build the deb from the LP source:
- pick caffeine_1.0.1-0ubuntu0~ppa16~jaunty.tar.gz from here https://launchpad.net/~caffeine-developers/+archive/caffeine-dev/+packages, we have to stay with 1.0.x v., the higher v. depend on appindicator which isn't available in debian http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1770527.html

now, unpack the tar.gz inside a newly created folder and inside the caffeine-1.0.1 folder open a terminal (my path was similar to this - yours will vary)

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amadeu@amadeu ~/Downloads/caffeine/Untitled Folder/caffeine-1.0.1 $

let's start build:

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apt build

will tell you the deps you need, i was missing dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: python-gnome2-dev so>>

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amadeu@amadeu ~/Downloads/caffeine/Untitled Folder/caffeine-1.0.1 $ apt install python-gnome2-dev


after that the building went fine and i have a deb file compiled in my system (so, i'm sure is compatible)

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dpkg-deb: building package `caffeine' in `../caffeine_1.0.1-0ubuntu0~ppa16~jaunty_all.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges  >../caffeine_1.0.1-0ubuntu0~ppa16~jaunty_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: including full source code in upload
 dpkg-source --after-build caffeine-1.0.1
dpkg-buildpackage: full upload; Debian-native package (full source is included)

note: for compiling/building you need the src-deb in the sources.list

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inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main import backport romeo upstream
           deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main import backport romeo upstream #Added by software-properties
           deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
           deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
           deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
           deb http://tridex.net/repo/debian/ wheezy main


[gosa]

zerozero:

Sorry for getting back a bit with a reply. I think that I'm going to wait a bit trying out your suggestion, because I'm beginning to feel that my computer might be up for a complete reinstall when the new ISO's are ready for the "masses". (Kind of neglected to clone it the last couple of months, and it feels like I've probably been a bit to abusive to it)

Anyway - thanks for your reply, I'll save it for later and get back with more if I run into any trouble.

[gosa]

And behold:

The Screensaver Inhibit 1.1:
http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/applets/view/59

- Wishes do come true!

[zerozero]

This addition is perfect, and brings Cinnamon 1 step closer to being the perfect DE.