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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dbus-monitor
dbus-monitor(1) General Commands Manual dbus-monitor(1)NAME
dbus-monitor - debug probe to print message bus messages
SYNOPSIS
dbus-monitor [--system | --session | --address ADDRESS] [--profile | --monitor] [watch expressions]
DESCRIPTION
The dbus-monitor command is used to monitor messages going through 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-monitor to monitor
the system or session buses respectively. If neither is specified, dbus-monitor monitors the session bus.
dbus-monitor has two different output modes, the 'classic'-style monitoring mode and profiling mode. The profiling format is a compact for-
mat with a single line per message and microsecond-resolution timing information. The --profile and --monitor options select the profiling
and monitoring output format respectively. If neither is specified, dbus-monitor uses the monitoring output format.
In order to get dbus-monitor to see the messages you are interested in, you should specify a set of watch expressions as you would expect
to be passed to the dbus_bus_add_match function.
The message bus configuration may keep dbus-monitor from seeing all messages, especially if you run the monitor as a non-root user.
OPTIONS --system
Monitor the system message bus.
--session
Monitor the session message bus. (This is the default.)
--address ADDRESS
Monitor an arbitrary message bus given at ADDRESS.
--profile
Use the profiling output format.
--monitor
Use the monitoring output format. (This is the default.)
EXAMPLE
Here is an example of using dbus-monitor to watch for the gnome typing monitor to say things
dbus-monitor "type='signal',sender='org.gnome.TypingMonitor',interface='org.gnome.TypingMonitor'"
AUTHOR
dbus-monitor was written by Philip Blundell. The profiling output mode was added by Olli Salli.
BUGS
Please send bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker, see http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/
dbus-monitor(1)