Do you know how to disable that terminal screen saver in RedHat/Fedora (maybe other distros, too)? I'm talking about the one that turns the screen black after awhile (not in the GUI). I remember looking briefly online for it before but kept seeing Gnome and KDE shit. I figured I'd ask here again before I go back to Mr. Google.

http://www.physics.uconn.edu/~qpeng/vnc/screensaverhowto.htm

I know what you are talking about. I never pay attention to it.
the link above is from an x-server. he's talking about when you are at the commandline, not when you have an x-server loaded.

the_reverend said:

This is true. I knew I'd get a response about the thing I said I wasn't looking for. haha.

At any rate, I'll do some research and dick around with it tomorrow at work and report back my findings.

why would you need to turn it off?
it sounds like a MB/BIOS setting

It's the setterm command. Yea, screen blanking is fairly annoying. But it does give a warm fuzzy feeling knowing it's not just crashed, like a nice blank screen in Windows would indicate.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-disabl...en-blanking-screen-going-blank.html

the_reverend said:

Who with the what now? What would the BIOS have to do with anything?

|an said:

ahh, this looks like the answer. I'll have to give it a whirl later. Many thanks to you.

in Powerstar/energystar BIOS there are settings for the monitors/harddrives. or at least there used to be.

That is an APM/ACPI setting, which will turn the monitor to low power mode

you're all MAD! MAD i tell you!

that is only one of the things that it can do. there are some BIOS settings for HD shutdown, CPU power cut when "idle", a ton more.

i wish i was smart

the_reverend said:

Yea, of course, but I'm not going to recite the full ACPI implementation here when only the monitor shutoff is relevant

Also, typically these options are taken care of by the OS nowadays.

ya dude.

the_reverend said:

Oh yeah. I see what you're saying. But what I'm talking about doesn't involve turning the monitor off/low power at all. It simply turns the screen black until you hit a key. Similar to Windows' "blank" screen saver. The monitor is on full power the whole time.

yes, I know what that is.
I do have a linux box ya know.

if u use bash u can make a .profile file to automatically execute the setterm commands of choice under your user upon login i believe. i dunno about tcsh tho but isnt bash the default for fedora?

yes bash is. it's the default for most distros. but he's not yet in a shell. @ the log in prompt, you don't have a shell assigned yet.

to get it there, you would need to put it in rc5.d or rc2.d

the_reverend said:

Then why are you talking about APM, you silly?

because I have a linux box?

There has been a severe communicaions error.