Blanking of the screen or filling with moving images when computer not in use.
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How to disable sleep/screensaver Kubuntu 12.04 LTS and VLC?
I watch VLC for a while, then about 15 min. later, it sleeps.
Where can i find the how to disable the screen-saver or how to disable sleep?
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How do I get the 12.04 login screen to turn off screen after timeout?
On 12.04, the login screen doesn't timeout or go to screensaver after a set time. I have a number of machines in a testbed that spend a lot of time waiting for logins and I'm afraid the monitors will ...
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Sreeensaver timeout for 12.04 sever CLI
I have installed 12.04LTS server edition, no GUI. At some interval, maybe 5 minutes the screen will blank and I have to hit a key to show the screen again.
I have spent hours surfing but cannot find ...
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How to disable blank screen permanently?
I have the following environment:
Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity
I've installed XScreenSaver, then removed it using Synaptic Manager, whenever the computer is idle for 10min, the screen went blank, after ...
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2answers
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screen saver issue
When I leave my PC alone for while the screens turns black, which is fine. When I return and move my mouse it comes back on but my second screen stays black and my first screen has a blue overlay over ...
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1answer
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Long passphrase for login and short password for screensaver
The situation is that: For the encrypted home directory, any passphrase less than 10 characters is useless at all. If someone physically get the harddisk, the data and the other sensitive password ...
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1answer
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Is watching a video on HDD using VLC, or a youtube video in a browser considered as 'computer idle'?
I have Ubuntu 11.04 (natty).
I have read 'Screen goes blank when VLC is playing video'
My question is similar, but also I have this problem when viewing a video on youtube.
I am not quite clear ...
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1answer
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ATI card (Radeon HD 5850) forced screensaver settings
I just installed an ATI graphics (Radeon HD 5850) to my desktop swapping my nVidia GTS250. I noticed it turns off the output if idle for 2 minutes, Even if I was running a video! unless the ...
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1answer
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Pidgin/Empathy are not recognizing webcam
i'm new to ubuntu and am having some issues doing a few things. I'm trying to video chat on yahoo but am having trouble getting pidgin or empathy to recognize my webcam. I also can't figure out how to ...
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1answer
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Turning off screensaver in Unity after installing xubuntu-desktop 12.10
I'm on Ubuntu 12.10. I installed the xubuntu-desktop package to see if I would like it and determined I would prefer to keep using unity. Ever since I did that I've been running into certain issues ...
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1answer
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Run xscreensaver with gnome-screensaver lock screen
I am running Ubuntu 12.10, and I just switched over from 11.04.
I'd like to use the xscreensaver functionality (actually, all I want is for electricsheep to run in the background after I have locked ...
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1answer
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Display dims when not in use and it turns off when not in use or while watching movies
I have Ubuntu 11.10 and am using it on dell xps laptop now my problem is that Ubuntu does not provide power utility form where I can manage brightness of my screen, when to turn it off, after how much ...
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How can I configure the screensaver and energy-management options separately for two screens?
Background
I have finally managed to use twinview with a TFT(1440x900@60Hz) and a TV(PAL,1024x576@50Hz) on nvidia (proprietary driver), configuring xorg.conf manually. I had to do this manually since ...
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0answers
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Monitor not turning off when screen saver is on
I installed Ubuntu for the first time 3 weeks ago and I really love it. I have Ubuntu 12.04.
My only problem is that when screen saver is on, it just shows blank screen, and not turning off the ...
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Turn screen off when no motion in front of webcamera
Is it possible to automatic turn screen off when there is no motion detected in front of webcamera for X minutes ?
Can i use
sudo service motion start
and
xset dpms force on/off
somehow ...
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0answers
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display power saver logs me out
I recently got a second display. I am attempting to set it up so the two displays are in TwinView, with one landscape and one portrait orientation. After getting everything to work the way I wanted, ...
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0answers
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Computer responds slowly when screen is locked
When my computer is locked, regardless of it timing out after 10 minutes or by me pressing CTRL+L, it takes forever to activate it.
It also appears as if the time it takes is linear to the time it as ...
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0answers
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Login from Screensaver not working (Ubuntu 12.04)
I'm working on a Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and got a weird problem that's driving me nuts. When I close the lid and try to login afterwards, my password won't get accepted. ...
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0answers
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Xubuntu: How can I avoid the double-password entry (lightdm then xscreensaver) on user switching?
I'm running Xubuntu raring with lightdm and xscreensaver. Both users on the system have xscreensaver set to lock the screen after n minutes. However, when I click "switch user" (or do gdmflexiserver ...
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0answers
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ubuntu unity launch screensaver with hotcorners
after looking all around I cannot find a way to launch the screensaver as soon as the mouse is located on a corner of the screen using "hotcorners".
Is this functionality builtin and if yes how can I ...
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0answers
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Unable to disable screen saver
I have set 'Turn screen off' to Never in Brightness and Lock, but my screen still goes dark after some time being idle, unless I'm watching a movie in VLC or some other media player.
What can I do to ...
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gnome - web browser as screensaver have problem with lock screen
How to run a web browser as a screensaver
From that link, I can now set chromium-browser in ubuntu - gnome in kiosk mode (fullscreen mode) to display a web page (acting as screensaver). Everything is ...
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0answers
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How to install these login themes?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME SHELL. I wish to change the lock screen's theme (no the login screen, just the lock screen (gnome-screensaver)).
I've found these themes: ...
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0answers
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Displays won't power off with screensaver
My Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop installation keeps display's backlight on when running screensaver. I'm talking about the whatever screensaved comes by default.
My power setting is set to turn off displays ...
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0answers
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How do I enable screensaver and lockscreen with Compiz installed on 12.10?
...as stock versions of these do not work for me since I have installed Compiz. Can anyone point me to a solution please?
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How to use electricsheep without xscreensaver
It would be great if i could write a script where,
after 10 or so minutes of inactivity,
electricsheep was launched full screen.
Upon movement of the mouse during this full screen session,
...
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0answers
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Needed simple, configurable, extendable screensaver
I need simple screensaver which would allow me to:
play videos (using mplayer)
show slideshow from pictures in given directory
lock the screen (optional)
Screensaver should be easy to configure ...
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0answers
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My screensaver noof is not working, works in preview mode though. xscreensaver-gl-extra
I installed xscreensaver-gl-extra in Ubuntu 10.04. In the gnome app screensaver, the preview button works. But it does not work when my screen times out after 5 minutes. I just get a blank screen. ...
