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Winged4Ever

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 35

xset and white screensaver

Hi, ARCH-ers!
I've got a strange problem here. Recently I had installed ARCH on my new laptop and I've noticed that screensaver is... white... I've glanced at xset options but found nothing about screensaver AND changing its color.
What do you think is wrong in here?

--- Logs:

[winged@locked ~]$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 600    Suspend: 600    Off: 600
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

PS Don't know why, but I don't have anything about my screen in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ . Is it because it is a laptop, not a PC?

Last edited by Winged4Ever (2014-01-31 14:22:41)

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|| Kernel: 4.0.4-2-ARCH || Architecture: i686 || WM: ratpoison || DE: none ||

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”
---Don Juan

Jarkore

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2013-08-05

Posts: 11

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Re: xset and white screensaver

Have you tried using a desktop background setter like nitrogen or feh?

Winged4Ever

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 35

Re: xset and white screensaver

I think that nitrogen should work just fine, but I want to stay as simple as possible with my system so I'd like to fix what is broken rather than make a pile of programs bigger.

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|| Kernel: 4.0.4-2-ARCH || Architecture: i686 || WM: ratpoison || DE: none ||

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”
---Don Juan

SimbaClaws

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Registered: 2014-02-05

Posts: 16

Re: xset and white screensaver

Do you perhaps have xscreensaver installed?
If so check: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … leshooting
As xset DPMS settings do not work with xscreensaver.

What if you turned off blanking?
xset s off

I myself am still quite new here, so I'm not sure if my suggestions are helping, but at least I'm trying

Last edited by SimbaClaws (2014-02-06 12:40:24)

Winged4Ever

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 35

Re: xset and white screensaver

(Un)fortunatelly I haven't installed xscreensaver.
@xset s off - this is opposite to my intentions for what I want to do ^^ I want to have working blanking, but I must admit that no screensaver is still better than white screensaver ^^
Thanks for support anyway, brainstoriming is always great ;]

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|| Kernel: 4.0.4-2-ARCH || Architecture: i686 || WM: ratpoison || DE: none ||

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”
---Don Juan

Neburski

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Registered: 2009-09-15

Posts: 118

Re: xset and white screensaver

What desktop environment or window manager are you using. Some DE's come with their own screensaver so you might need to check your screensaver settings in you DE (if you use one).

Winged4Ever

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 35

Re: xset and white screensaver

@up, no, I don't use any DE, just simple ratpoison WM.

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|| Kernel: 4.0.4-2-ARCH || Architecture: i686 || WM: ratpoison || DE: none ||

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”
---Don Juan