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For a moment, I thought that this might be inherited from the GDM configuration (since the GDM login screen does the same thing), but apparently it's not.
After checking a few other places without any luck, I decided to find out for myself and took a look at the source code(v2.30). The code responsible for the shaking only checks to make sure the dialog ...
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The simplest is slock, the suckless screen locker.
You could combine this with xautolock if you wanted to automate it after a period of inactivity.
If you want something more "featurefull" you could install xscreensaver. Of course, gnome-screensaver is an option as well...
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I believe that this phoronix article has some answers for you about wayland and screensaver.
This article mainly says that it will be more integrated :
it can ensure that no window can appear atop the screensaver surface,
it can properly detect idling and grabs already, and has complete
control over the screen.
Unlike the X design, there wouldn't ...
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mplayer has the switch -heartbeat-cmd to run a command every 30 seconds, but as the man page says:
This can be "misused" to disable screensavers that do not support the proper X API
The actual switch meant to disable screensavers is -stop-xscreensaver; you should probably try that first
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The xset command controls a number of parameters of the X server (the part of the system that provides a graphical display with windows), including its built-in screen saver and blanking ability.
xset -dpms s off
If you're using a third party screensaver, it might still be triggered.
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You could use xautolock:
Xautolock monitors console activity under the X window system, and fires up a program of your choice if nothing happens during a user configurable period of time. You can use this to automatically start up a screen locker in case you tend to forget to do so manually before having a coffee break.
Something along the lines of:
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I haven't been able to find an actual command to change the lock feature, but in the configuration file .xscreensaver, located in the home folder, I've found the value of lock: lock: False
In order to modify its value, I can change the value in the config file by using the command:
sed -i 's/\(lock:\t\t\).*/\1False/' /home/username/.xscreensaver
False ...
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If you saw this on an older system, chances that it was running xscreensaver. You can see its standard collection; there's a maze one which looks like what you describe.
Note that it was common for people to install their own screensavers, for the decorative appeal. So this could have been something added locally, perhaps even something coded locally. ...
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I don't think this is possible looking at how GNOME3 and GDM currently work. At least not without having to restart /etc/init.d/gdm3 every time you want the image to rotate. This seems impractical.
The steps to change the login and the lock screen wallpaper are discussed here in this post titled: Change desktop, login and lock screen wallpapers in GNOME ...
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Dispelling wrong paths
First, virtually all modern displays support sleep modes. Also, xset dpms force off (or other ways to tell the X server) is the correct way (under X) to turn off monitors. I've used that for years without a hitch.
Second, the mention DPMS is Disabled only comes from your xset -dpms. As soon as you issue xset dpms force off or other ...
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I don't think you can do this in the settings for either flash or xscreensaver. However, is it possible that you are streaming video from another site? You could write a script that ran netstat and looked for established connections on a certain port or maybe site and then xset s off; xset -dpms ; sleep XXX, then reenable. Then just background the script.
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Ubuntu Forums suggests the following:
gconftool --type int -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_time ***time***
gconftool --type int -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_display_battery ***time***
gconftool --type int -s /apps/gnome-power-manager/timeout/sleep_computer_battery ***time***
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A few years ago I used a PC keyboard with a Macintosh multi-booting Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Linux. The windows key generated the same keycode as the Apple Command Key and showed up in linux as 'meta' or something. Try geekosaur's answer for mapping the windows key here.
Even if it is the wrong keycode, something very similar should do for you.
Edit: Example ...
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If you are using KDE's own builtin screensaver, I'm not sure... however, if you are using xscreensaver or are interested in using xscreensaver the following should help.
Using xscreensaver you can adjust the number of pixels that the mouse must move before deactivating the screensaver; not sure about completing disabling the mouse though.
If you are not ...
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In your xsession-errors there is an error that is the X Server dying like
aborting...
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 2926 requests (2824 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
After googling that a bit, your problem seems to be common with ubuntu so it is probably something they have in one of ...
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