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Topic: automatic turn screen off

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exerd

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Posted: Oct. 19 2004,17:23

How do i turn the thing that makes my screen black after a while?
and also how do i save it when i turned it of?

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 19 2004,19:40

add this to $HOME/.xinitrc (BEFORE the last command):
xset s off

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exerd

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Posted: Oct. 20 2004,10:00

hmm i can´t find the .xinitrc im looking in /home/ . whats wrong? please help!

skaos

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Posted: Oct. 20 2004,10:12

$HOME is a so-called environment variable and it probably points to /home/dsl (for the dsl user, for other users it points to their home directory). You can view it by the following command: echo $HOME