[K12OSN] xset question

Huck dhuckaby at paasda.org
Mon Nov 15 18:48:02 UTC 2004


Shawn Powers wrote:

> Is there a place to place an `xset s off` or `xset s noblank` command 
> for terminals?  Would that stop the blanking of screens for me?  (ie, 
> they blank out after 5 minutes idle, and one of them is what we scroll 
> our daily bulletin openoffice presentation with, so we need it on all 
> day without user interaction.)  Also, my teachers complain, because 
> USB mice are not seen as "action" and unless they type something, the 
> screen blanks while they are using it.  (I think while they are 
> playing Mahjongg with only a mouse!)
>
> Anyone else have this problem?
>
> -Shawn


Simple solution (rm -rf mahjon*) =)
j/k...

can you not put the 'xset' command in the .profile for the specific user?

--Huck




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