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From: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>
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Subject: Re: screen blanking and kde
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On Monday 03 July 2006 09:34, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> The machine I use fvwm on blanks the screen after a period of time (the
> default from Xorg). However, a machine running KDE does not(!), even
> without the screensaver enabled (in kde). Disabling the saver results
> in a screen never go blank. So, I guess, kde interfeares with xorg
> somewhere (disabling the blanktime feature from xorg).
>
> Does anybody know where this is done (by kde) and if this can be
> changed? Sure, I can use kde's screensaver (orxscreensaver), but I only
> want the screen go blank and xorg can do that just the same)

Just a me too...sorta.

My KDE session might blank out 3 or 4 times but after that it will just stay 
on. I noticed when using GNOME-2 the problem went away.