Re: Disable screensaver

[Chris Rouch <crouch pobox com>]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:11:07 -0500
Janyne Kizer <janyne_kizer ncsu edu> wrote:

> I should have mentioned that I tried
> 
> xset s off
> 
> as root but that didn't do what I want.  I mean, the screensaver still
> fires up after a few minutes.  We use thin clients and unfortunately 
> some of the models that are used in the field don't support OpenGL and
> some of the screensavers require it.
> 

You could login as one of your users to set it up just to use a
'safe' screensaver) e.g. the screen blank  (run xscreensaver-demo and
uncheck all but one option). Then copy .xscreensaver to all your users'
home directory. You could also put it into /etc/skel so that new users
get the same setup.

NB I don't have a gnome system here to try this on, but it works with
xsceensaver running without gnome. 

Alternively you could put 'xscreensaver-command -exit' into the
gnome login script. I'm not sure how you'd progogate that system wide
though.

Regards,

Chris