[SOLVED] prevent screen blank on Xorg Login Screen

RudyMartin · 05-04-2024, 10:10 AM

I been searching on the web and found tons of similar subjects but ... I tend to think that google is not as useful as it was some 15-20 years ago.

I am using slackware, and I have a desktop computer which I access using xfreerdp. It has a small flat monitor connected and I want the SDDM login screen to be up all the time.

this is what I got while connected by rdp:

Code:

rudy@rudy:~$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  off    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000002
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    on     02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Shift Lock:  off    04: Group 2:     off    05: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
  auto repeating keys:  00feffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffffffdfe5ef
                        ffffffffffffffff
                        ffffffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  20/10    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc,/usr/share/fonts/TTF,/usr/share/fonts/OTF,/usr/share/fonts/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic,built-ins
DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling):
  Server does not have the DPMS Extension
Font cache:
  Server does not have the FontCache Extension

if I do

xset s off

but xset q shows no change in Screen Saver options and manual page says "The 'on/off' flags simply turn the screen saver func‐
tions on or off. "

question is: how to deactivate the screensaver on the login screen? Also I went thru sddm.conf but I saw no option there.

or perhaps xrdp is messing with me... idk.

thanks.

business_kid · 05-09-2024, 10:43 AM

I had an issue there recently. For me, the answer was

Delete the Mate (or other WM)screensaver package
That left xscreensaver, which was more amenable to configuration.

RudyMartin · 05-09-2024, 10:44 AM

after doing more search found a solution and had to create a new conf file:

Code:

rudy@rudy:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/server.conf
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option    "blank time" "0"
    Option    "standby time" "0"
    Option    "suspend time" "0"
    Option    "off time" "0"
    Option "DPMS"  "off"    
EndSection

lvm_ · 05-10-2024, 12:51 AM

If one is to believe xorg docs, "Option DPMS" belongs to Monitor section, not to ServerFlags section: https://www.x.org/releases/current/d...html#heading12 Does it work this way too? I mean, does "xset q" reports that DMPS is disables? Also there should be no spaces in other verbs: https://www.x.org/releases/current/d...xhtml#heading5