Permanently disable screensaver on NC900

[Bill Sheehan]

Hello everyone,

I'm running a simulation system that uses X windows to drive it's displays.

We are using touchscreens so we decided to chuck our keyboards.
This leaves the user less things to mess up the system :)

The problem is that we need the keyboard to refresh the screen saver.

So can I disable the screen saver permantly?
How would I be able to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Bill Sheehan

[Bela Lubkin]

Post by Bill Sheehan
I'm running a simulation system that uses X windows to drive it's displays.
We are using touchscreens so we decided to chuck our keyboards.
This leaves the user less things to mess up the system :)
The problem is that we need the keyboard to refresh the screen saver.
So can I disable the screen saver permantly?
How would I be able to do this?

Is this on an operating system? Maybe a SCO operating system? I'm only
guessing since you posted on comp.unix.sco.programmer.

SCO OpenServer has both a kernel screen blanker and an X screen blanker.
It's also possible that your hardware blanks the screen itself. I have
no idea what an "NC900" is.

google seems to think it's a Network Computer from NCD. Which, from the
description, probably isn't running a SCO operating system. So I won't
dig up descriptions of the screen blankers I know about, because they
probably don't apply.

Another hint is that when a SCO system (at least an OpenServer system)
goes blank under X, moving the mouse unblanks it. So presumably would
touching a touchscreen. If this thing you're using doesn't wake up on a
mouse touch, perhaps what you should be doing is looking for the bug fix
supplement that they must have issued several years ago to fix that
egregious bug.

Post by Bill Sheehan
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