Re: need to remove screen saver

Paula,

You have a few choices:
1. You can uninstall the screensaver program altogether. If you're
running Gnome as your desktop manager, chances are you're using
gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver. Do a "apropos screensaver" or rpm
-qa | grep screensaver to find out which one you're running.
2. Unlike Windows, Linux has multiple X-displays. If a user has logged
on and the screensaver is on, simply hit "Ctrl-alt-F1" or
"Ctrl-alt-F2" or any other up to F6. The main desktop by default runs
on F7. Once you've done that, logon as another user and issue this
command: "startx -- :8" . This will open another X without disrupting
the first user's session. It does not have to be 8, you can also use
9, 10 and so on. You can switch between X-sessions using
Ctrl-Alt-F<display number>.

Finally, I don't know of any screensavers that would let you use a
"global password". Plus you would not want to do that anyway!

Regards,

Enils

On Feb 1, 2008 4:26 PM, Paula J. Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have a red hat 4 box that many people use to log on to an instrument.
> When a users leaves the
> box and another person wants to log in, they can't due to the screen
> saver coming on.  How
> can I globally turn off the screen saver so that it never comes on for
> any body.  Or, a global
> passwd so that everyone can log in when the screen saver is on?  This
> box becomes unusable
> and it is suppose to be available to all scientist at all hours of the
> day.  Can someone help me?
> Many thanks in advance,
> Paula
>
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