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How can I put my HDMI display into (and out of) power save mode?
I am using a Raspberry Pi to run an information display in an office. I want the display in power save mode when outside of business hours. I was going to use cron to execute something at the ...
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How can I tell if xscreensaver has my screen locked?
I'm thinking through alerting stuff, and decided that, if my screen is locked, I'm not there so I should push the alerts to my phone. But, I cannot currently tell if the screen is locked. I could put ...
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How to create a screen lock timer for Awesome WM?
I've got an Ubuntu 12.04 system with Awesome WM, and I'd like the screensaver to work like in Unity:
GNOME Screensaver
Ctrl-Alt-L to lock
N minutes' timeout which respects applications which ...
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Console ScreenSaver without X11
I'm trying to setup a very slimmed down console only Debian system to act as a simple slideshow photo display. I know that it is possible to show graphics (I guess using the framebuffer) in the ...
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Permanently remapping a key on Linux
I'm using an aluminum Apple keyboard with my Mandriva 2010.2 Linux system. I remap the Apple Command key to Control using the following .Xmodmap file:
keycode 134 = Control_R
remove mod4 = Multi_key
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Is there a way to determine what's inhibiting the screensaver?
I have an issue where most often my screensaver will not activate and it's somewhat hard to determine what's preventing it. Is there a way that I can view whatever processes are asking the OS not to ...
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How to disable “Shake password dialog when authentication fails” of Gnome Screensaver?
Is there any way to disable the animation which occurs when attempting to unlock gnome Screensaver and failing? Currently the password dialog shakes back and forth and for some reason on some laptops, ...
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Wayland and full-screen apps
Will Wayland, unlike X, be able to "know" about a full screen app, and not fire up the screensaver? I remember reading up on this, and X (or present KWin/Compiz) cannot know or be told when to hold ...
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How to turn off xscreensaver automatically while watching Flash video?
Can I configure Flash to automatically disable xscreensaver while it's playing video? Or, conversely, configure xscreensaver not to trigger while Flash is playing video?
I've seen this question on ...
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Change xscreensaver lock option command
How could I change the lock option for the xscreensaver from the command line?
Been looking around and couldn't find anything about it.
xscreensaver-command -lock will lock it right away, which is ...
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What's keeping my screensaver from activating?
I'm running Linux Mint 13 KDE on an HP Pavilion g6 laptop.
The screensaver, which in my case is xscreensaver, but I've noticed this behavior with kscreensaver as well, never seems to activate.
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Screen content showing for a few seconds before screensaver starts (Fedora 14)
This happens every now and then, I have not pinned down the cause but let me describe the symptoms.
On occasion when I come back to the computer after a few hours the screen is in energy saving mode, ...
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How to disable screen saver and power management in linux by command line?
Is there a command line you can run that can enable in-habitation, disabling computer going to screen saver, sleep?
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Maze screensaver on old Unix computers
I used to use unix computers in the 90's for building GIS systems. There used to be a screen saver which consited of a maze that filled the screen. Then the computer would logically solve the maze ...
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How to make the display go to sleep when screen is locked?
I’m using a Debian amd64 install with the default GNOME desktop. I’m aware that you can go into System | Preferences | Power Management, and choose to make the display go to sleep after a certain ...
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Slide show/screensaver over login screen on RHEL 6.4
I've see the slide show (Pictures folder) screensaver. I've also seen how to change the background behind my login screen. What I haven't been able to figure out is how to display a slide show as a ...
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Fedora 15 screensaver won't wake up after about 10 hours
I can switch to another Terminal via CTRL+ALT+F2, but the screen remains black and won't wake up. Sometimes, it wakes up after several retries.
Any ideas to resolve it?
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Is there a way to stop screensaver on keyboard only?
Let's say you have screensaver running. When you move your mouse or hit any key on keyboard screensaver will be stopped.
The problem is that with modern, laser based mice, slight vibration of ...
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Computer logs out when resuming from sleep
When I leave my laptop for a while, after it blacks the screen (as I configured XScreensaver to do), when I return, it awakens to the login screen. When I login, there is no trace of my previous ...
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Alternate screensaver settings on different X instances
On my desktop system, I run two instances of X-- one is associated with the physical screen, one is associated with a virtual screen (a la vncserver).
I use the physical one to do things related to ...
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Are there any screen locking solutions for openbox?
If I want to use OpenBox then how can I lock my "monitor" when I leave the PC for a few minutes? Like the gnome-screensaver under GNOME.
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Tell mplayer to prevent the screensaver from kicking in while playing
I know mplayer has some heartbeat setting but I don't recall what it is, could anyone tell me?
another one of those annoying things that used to just work and somewhere along the line stopped being ...
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How to install caffeine on Scientific Linux 6.3
caffeine
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/caffeine", line 40, in <module>
import caffeine
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/caffeine/__init__.py", line 23, in ...
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Gnome screensaver floating feet shows only one (left) foot any alternative screensaver with both?
I like gnome screensaver floating feet and looking for version that displays both right, left heels of gnome or at least with choice option for the right.
this is just for fun design related question. ...
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What screensaver should I use under XFCE? [closed]
I'm running XFCE and Gnome3 and have some trouble with choosing a screensaver. Any advice on which screensaver to use and how to configure it?
AFAIK xscreensaver works, but I wonder if it's a better ...
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Writing custom Gnome/Mate screensaver with SDL
I'm using MATE desktop environment on Linux Mint Nadia. I want to write my very own screensaver for mate-screensaver, but with SDL (not OpenGL).
I've been looking for solutions, found some usable ...
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Lock screen after blanking with gnome-screensaver and XFCE
I'm using XFCE4 with Fedora 18 and replaced xscreensaver with gnome-screensaver. I have gnome-screensaver checked in session and startup and xscreensaver unchecked.
By using power manager, I have ...
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How to use xscreensaver's screensavers in kscreensaver
How can I use xscreensaver screensaver "molecule" in KDE's screensaver programme?
