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Re: turn off Athena 10 screen saver?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Sat Apr 4 15:17:10 2009
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 15:16:21 -0400
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> How do I turn off the Athena 10 screen saver? I'm hoping there's a
> dotfile
> line that will do it.
There are gconf settings to do this.
If you want to prevent the screensaver from activating, you can do so
from the GUI by going to System -> Preferences -> Screensaver, and
unchecking "Activate screensaver when computer is idle". You can do
the same thing by setting /apps/gnome-screensaver/
idle_activation_enabled
to false in gconf (or uncheck it in the gconf-editor GUI).
If you want to prevent gnome-screensaver from running entirely, you
can set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver to
false (or uncheck it in gconf-editor).
You can use gconftool-2 to set these values from the command line;
for example:
gconftool-2 -s --type=boolean /apps/gnome-screensaver/
idle_activation_enabled false
HTH,
Bob
