Re: Disable screensaver/do not blank screen

Glyn Kennington <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fluxbox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> That brings me a bit closer: "xset -dpms" works when I enter it manually from within Fluxbox using the terminal. But: when I put "exec xset -dpms" to the startup file the Fluxbox/X-Server terminates immediately. So how can I automate that call?
> 

In a shell script, the "exec" means "become this command", meaning that
no more of the script is processed and, in the case of an X startup
file, the server will terminate as soon as that command does.

Try putting the "xset -dpms" line in the startup file without the "exec"
at the beginning. 

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