Re: Triggering gnome screen-saver timeout from console keypresses?

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:47:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Now that Orca really works great these days, I do have a logged in
> GNOME session on my workstation all the time.  However, since
> the braille support for gnome-terminal is still lacking
> a few things I really got used to as a long term syssadmin
> on the linux console with BRLTTY, I do not do all of my work inside GNOME.
> In fact, I spend maybe only 10% of my computer time in a GNOME session,
> the rest of the time I just use a plain Linux console to do remote
> admin work and all my emacs activities (mail, irc, editing source code...)
> 
> This usage pattern triggers an anoying problem here:  The X11
> screen saver has kicked in every time I switch back to my
> X11 console (Alt+F7).  While I understand why there is a password
> prompt, I do argue that the behaviour of the timeout detection
> of the X11 screen saver is broken, since it does not
> take into account keypresses that might have happened somewhere
> else (like on a text console).

Why don't you disable the screensaver altogether? 
Admin->Preferences->Screensaver.

Regards,

Bertil