Is it true that the mint/cinnamon screensaver cannot be OFF, only delayed? If yes then is there an alternative applet which can be set to ON/OFF?

rickim,

Open a terminal and type the following command:

At the bottom of this file add the following:

Save the file and close it. Reboot.

Curious. This will stop Xorg internal screensaver, sure. But will it stop xscreensaver? Run xscreensaver-demo from terminal.

If Mint Cinnamon is like Mint MATE, it does not use xscreensaver. Instead, it uses cinnamon-screensaver, which, like MATE screensaver, gnome-screensaver, and kscreensaver, is a lamer respin of xscreensaver.

I do know that xscreensaver has a "disable screensaver" setting. I just took at look at mate-screensaver (I have Mint in a VM) and it does not seem to have a "disable" setting in the screensaver controls, which I would consider a gross oversight. Accordingly, I'd not be surprised if cinnamon-screensaver were similarly crippled.

One of the first things I do when I install a distro which uses some lamer xscreensaver derivative is replace it with the real thing. It's quite easy to do with standard package management tools.

I do not have xscreensaver installed, but I recall xscreensaver-demo is, despite its name, a configuration program.

I've also been puzzled by the name, "xscreensaver-demo." I reckon it means that you can demo the various screensavers and choose and configure the one(s) you wish to use.

If you start xscreensaver-demo and the xscreensaver daemon is not running, xscreensaver-demo will ask to start it.

Rick:
Without a Mint version, we are all just running our mouths off.

output please.