From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKKbp-0006b3-Ch for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:08:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 741FEE04E6; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48028E04E6 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:08:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BE6520AA06 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:08:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by hades.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D41120A9FD for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:08:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [139.174.197.94] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.5) with ESMTPSA id 35966468 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:08:53 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Screen-saver annoyance after recent update Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:08:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.0 (Linux/2.6.26-rc9r4; KDE/4.0.98; x86_64; ; ) References: <20080719191813.GC12486@waltdnes.org> <200807192208.04067.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20080719211235.GA32715@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20080719211235.GA32715@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807200008.45613.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: fb9e870b-c976-4487-9f3a-876ebe534f40 X-Archives-Hash: 581532b1261dad73d210138fddfd1de7 On Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:08:03PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > How about: not using screensavers at all? > > Now for a stupid-sounding question... what is the screensaver called? > A "ps -ef" doesn't show any process with "screen" in the name. Man x > and man xorg don't help. I'm running blackbox, so I don't have a > gazillion settings widgets (nothing helpful in man blackbox). How can I > find what program is blanking the screen? Once I do that, I can either > set parameters or disable it. so you are not using a screensaver but dpms screen blanking? xset --help will answer your question.