[TriLUG] disabling screen blanking
john mitchell
john280z at earthlink.net
Thu Oct 28 15:38:50 EDT 2004
Chris Knowles wrote:
> <SNIP LOTS OF OTHER STUFF>
>
> It could be an APM issue, but console blanking is turned on on debian.
> After GTFW, for "linux console screen blanking" I found several
> references to "setterm -blank N" where N is the number of minutes to
> elapse before the console is blanked. N=0 will disable this.
Yea, that's it - I found a reference to it foe RH 9.0. I just tried:
"setterm -blank 2" and two minutes later (on my stopwatch) it blanked.
Thanks, it been bugging me for a while, I wonder if its documented
anywhere (not in "man" but some default document) ?
john mitchell
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