There's no portable way to do this. You can target a particular screen locker and often times they will have an option or way to send a message to the screen locker to stop locking. Some desktop screen lockers will look for particular power mgmt profiling to determine if they should lock or not.
If you want to disable it permanently, you should be able to do this in System -> Preferences -> Screensaver. Then you could manually lock your screen when you feel it is needed.
Since you're saying RHEL 5.4, you can send the gnome-screensaver a dbus message to inhibit locking with:
That command will return an integer string (cookie)... use that to UnInhibit
Good day. :)
I don't know exactly where or how to post this kind of stuff, but I though I'd like to have a look at my "Screen Saver" in progress. Comments welcome.
This uses bash. Just copy and pase into any file. Make o+x and run. Feel free to edit and change all u like.
Thanks.
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Hi All,
I'm on Solaris10-intel and I'm on the classic GUI, CDE. Can't find the control for screen saver. Is there's a command line equivalent?
Thanks in advance,
itik (0 Replies)
I am using sun solaris machine i have given the specs of that machine given below
Name of athe Platform : SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Machiene hardware :sun4u
Processor Type :sparc
Operating system : solaris 10
Monitory TYpe : SAMSUNG Sync Master... (2 Replies)
Hi Guy,
In order to monitor the user sessions, I have put the screen tool in the .profile in order to record the whole session.
However, when the user logs in, the screen command is executed and the screen is first cleared, then the command prompt appears. so, I basically want to disable the... (2 Replies)
I am using solaris 10 x86, i am trying to create my own sreensavers using the pictures in my folder. pls can someone tell on how to go about this (1 Reply)
Good Morning.
I have a question about screen savers in LINUX especially CENTOS. I don't seem to have a problem setting the screen saver with a password required for the root account(version 5.3). I'm told earlier versions you could not set it for. I was wondering if newer versions of LINUX had... (1 Reply)
Hi,
At work, the PC Windows 7 goes to screen saver mode after 10 minutes. I don't have access to change that. It's grayed out for me. After 10 minutes, the IM will say " AWAY" and my email status will say " AWAY ". Email and IM both are from Microsoft.
My question is there any work... (2 Replies)
Hi all, I'm running CentOS 7. When the machine is left alone for a few minutes, a screen saver or blanker or something comes up with a clock and date on it. You have to swipe this to get back to the desktop. I'm trying desperately to get rid of this so that it never comes up. No matter how long... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
dbus-send
DBUS-SEND(1) User Commands DBUS-SEND(1)NAME
dbus-send - Send a message to a message bus
SYNOPSIS
dbus-send [--system | --session | --address=ADDRESS] [--dest=NAME] [--print-reply [=literal]] [--reply-timeout=MSEC] [--type=TYPE]
OBJECT_PATH INTERFACE.MEMBER [CONTENTS...]
DESCRIPTION
The dbus-send command is used to send a message to a D-Bus message bus. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ for more information
about the big picture.
There are two well-known message buses: the systemwide message bus (installed on many systems as the "messagebus" service) and the
per-user-login-session message bus (started each time a user logs in). The --system and --session options direct dbus-send to send messages
to the system or session buses respectively. If neither is specified, dbus-send sends to the session bus.
Nearly all uses of dbus-send must provide the --dest argument which is the name of a connection on the bus to send the message to. If
--dest is omitted, no destination is set.
The object path and the name of the message to send must always be specified. Following arguments, if any, are the message contents
(message arguments). These are given as type-specified values and may include containers (arrays, dicts, and variants) as described below.
<contents> ::= <item> | <container> [ <item> | <container>...]
<item> ::= <type>:<value>
<container> ::= <array> | <dict> | <variant>
<array> ::= array:<type>:<value>[,<value>...]
<dict> ::= dict:<type>:<type>:<key>,<value>[,<key>,<value>...]
<variant> ::= variant:<type>:<value>
<type> ::= string | int16 | uint16 | int32 | uint32 | int64 | uint64 | double | byte | boolean | objpath
D-Bus supports more types than these, but dbus-send currently does not. Also, dbus-send does not permit empty containers or nested
containers (e.g. arrays of variants).
Here is an example invocation:
dbus-send --dest=org.freedesktop.ExampleName
/org/freedesktop/sample/object/name
org.freedesktop.ExampleInterface.ExampleMethod
int32:47 string:'hello world' double:65.32
array:string:"1st item","next item","last item"
dict:string:int32:"one",1,"two",2,"three",3
variant:int32:-8
objpath:/org/freedesktop/sample/object/name
Note that the interface is separated from a method or signal name by a dot, though in the actual protocol the interface and the interface
member are separate fields.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--dest=NAME
Specify the name of the connection to receive the message.
--print-reply
Block for a reply to the message sent, and print any reply received in a human-readable form. It also means the message type (--type=)
is method_call.
--print-reply=literal
Block for a reply to the message sent, and print the body of the reply. If the reply is an object path or a string, it is printed
literally, with no punctuation, escape characters etc.
--reply-timeout=MSEC
Wait for a reply for up to MSEC milliseconds. The default is implementation-defined, typically 25 seconds.
--system
Send to the system message bus.
--session
Send to the session message bus. (This is the default.)
--address=ADDRESS
Send to ADDRESS.
--type=TYPE
Specify method_call or signal (defaults to "signal").
AUTHOR
dbus-send was written by Philip Blundell.
BUGS
Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker, see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/
D-Bus 1.12.2DBUS-SEND(1)