Screensaver in porteus 4.0

[francois]

Is there a screensaver in porteus stock? If so, how do you access the controls. I would like it to turn black more rapidly.

Thanks.

[donald]

Which DE?

In XFCE > settings > power manager,display tab

or with xset

check current values:

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guest@porteus:~$ xset -q

set to blank after 1min:

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guest@porteus:~$ xset s 60 0

But to be true, It did not work for me unless i use the NVIDIA Driver.

[francois]

Same desktop as you have. Settings and power manager is the right place. As I have a laptop, the simplest thing without any changes is finally to close the lid.

The suspend function is akward, it is set at unsuspend action to get back only to the stand alone screen. I use dual display. Dual display script will do the job or some kind of config file in the power management section.

I will play with it and report.

Thanks so much.

[francois]

Porteus 5.0. Screensaver seems to be non functional.

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guest@porteus:~$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  20
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF,built-ins

60 sec delay setup

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uest@porteus:~$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  20
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  60    cycle:  0
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/TTF,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 0    Suspend: 0    Off: 900
  DPMS is Disabled
Font cache:
  Server does not have t

[francois]

It does not work.

[Rava]

It does not work.

On i586 Porteus 4.0 and XFCE 4.12 I use the XFCE settings manager.
I set it so that after 20 seconds the display should be set to 80%, and that after one minute the display should be turned off.
☯ The issue is: the "after 20 seconds set display to 80%" is never activating…
☯ but the "switch off after one minute" works.

Currently I have no x86-64 Port 4.0 set up so I can not test it for you if that's a x86-64 vs i586 issue. And the machine mentioned above is i586 only.

As comparison: this is the relevant info on my x86-64 Porteus 5.0:

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guest@porteus:~$ xset -q|grep "Screen Saver:" -A 2
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  0

and it works as it should: switching the screen off after 600 seconds aka 10 minutes.

Added in 7 hours 5 minutes 35 seconds:
and the info from my i586-Port 4.0

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guest@porteus:~$ xset -q|grep "Screen Saver:" -A 2
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  60    cycle:  0

[francois]

Update for porteus 5.x set to blank after 3 min:

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guest@porteus:~$ xset -q
guest@porteus:~$ xset s 180 0