[Novalug] OpenSUSE Power Control

Dan Arico dan_arico@aricosystems.com
Mon Feb 21 23:12:39 EST 2011


On Monday, February 21, 2011 09:43:21 pm John Franklin wrote:
> Amen, brother.  I had a client ask for a Kubuntu build for one of his
> interns.  Navigating KDE has become as abstract and obtuse as a new
> version of Windows with all the preference setting shuffled about.  I had
> problems just finding a terminal in the menus, it turned out to be faster
> to search for it.  The intern -- an english major -- had it even worse.
> 
> We finally got the desktop to usable with a one line fix: apt-get install
> gnome-desktop-environment.
> 
> hth,
> jf

By coincidence, I ran across a fix right after I read this.

It's a simple shell script:

#!/bin/sh
xset s off
xset s noblank
xset -dpms

Make it executable and put it in ~/.kde/Autostart

Dan


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