Slackware 14.1


Hi: I disabled the screensaver and still, after some time with no keyboard activity the screen is locked and I must enter my passwd. In 14.0 I just disabled the screensaver in Settings>Screensaver and unchecked the corresponding entry in Settings>Autostart Applications (or something like that). But this seems to be not enough in 14.1. Is there something I should do in addition to what I did?

Have you looked in the energy settings? There are options to lock the screen, too.

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xset is probably what you are looking for; see the man page
'xset -dpms' TO STOP SCREEN BLANKING -or- 'xset dpms 300 0 0' to go standby in 5'. Also 'xset s off' to turn off screen saver.
Can add to /etc/rc.local so you don't have to re-enter the setting after each reboot.

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/etc/rc.local is not the right place to put the xset commands. X might get started after rc.local has run, and it will not be re-run if X11 is restarted without a system reboot.

better options include:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (which is a soft link to whatever DE specific xinitrc you use) if you want the behavior system wide
otherwise you can copy that file to ~/.xinitrc and add it there, to effect only one user account.

An even smarter solution IMHO would be to create a shell script with any xset commands etc you need and run it from your session manager, in XFCE goto session and startup and than the application autostart tab, and add your script. I am sure KDE has something similar but I have not used that in years, so I don't exactly how to do that. The reason I say this is smarted is its possible the desktop environment might step on any settings you have put into xinitrc as part of its own startup. Letting the session manager do it should help ensure they are the amoung last commands to get run after you login.

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Thanks very much.

Actually, disabling it in the xorg.conf configuration is the right place.

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