I normally have my screensaver set for 30 minutes but for some reason the setting won't change.
So every 5 minutes I have to move the mouse.
Any idea who to fix this annoying prob?
LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
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LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
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Re: LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
This may not be the best answer, but I uninstalled the xscreensaver program and set my monitor to power down after 30 minutes through the power settings. The lack of xscreensaver has not caused any trouble to the system.
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Re: LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
I have the same problem.
How did you uninstall xscreensaver? I try to do sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver, but it says there is no such package
How did you uninstall xscreensaver? I try to do sudo apt-get remove xscreensaver, but it says there is no such package
Re: LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
I uninstalled xscreensaver. But that didn't solve the problem.
I came across only one solution to stop this on-going weird behaviour of lmde:
xset s off
Add this line to your starting programs and you're done.
I came across only one solution to stop this on-going weird behaviour of lmde:
xset s off
Add this line to your starting programs and you're done.
Re: LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
Well, even
doesn't seem to always help
Make sure you also consider
and
(the latter if xscreensaver is installed)
Hope, I could help a little.
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xset s off
Make sure you also consider
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mate-screensaver-preferences
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xscreensaver-demo
Hope, I could help a little.
Re: LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
Another culprit in having an unwanted screensaver blank your screen is the built in screensaver of your monitor in you have an "Energy Star" monitor, and most modern monitors are. You can kill this with:
I have that command and:
both in my Startup Applications.
This is using the Mate Desktop in Olivia.
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xset -dpms
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xset s off
This is using the Mate Desktop in Olivia.
Re: LM 15 Mate screensaver starts at 5 minutes regardless
I had the same problem, puzzled me for a few days. I ended up disabling the screensaver altogether in the power manager and using the blank screen option for screensaver with 30 minutes. Now everything is fine. The strange behavior appeared to come from the default Power Manager settings ...
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