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barthel

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From: Saint Charles, MO

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] XScreenSaver 6.0 running, but no output

Short version: XScreenSaver 5.44 worked fine, but 6.0 had my monitor reporting no input signal.

After doing basic troubleshooting, I contacted the developer with logs and configuration files.

When refactoring the code for 6.0, Jamie opted to not turn off the X server's saver functions, since most systems now do that by default.

You need

xset s 0

if you encounter this issue. (I'm running LXQt - you might see this in other lightweight environments.)

I opted to include it in my bashrc.d scripts, but you might prefer to do it as a session auto-start or a user systemd service.

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