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
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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)
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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 CENTOS
gnome-session-inhibit
GNOME-SESSION-INHI(1) User Commands GNOME-SESSION-INHI(1)NAME
gnome-session-inhibit - inhibit gnome-session functionality
SYNOPSIS
gnome-session-inhibit [OPTION...] [COMMAND]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-session-inhibit can inhibit certain gnome-session functionality while executing the given COMMAND. To achieve this, it calls the
Inhibit() method of the gnome-session D-Bus API and creates an inhibitor. The inhibitor is automatically removed when gnome-session-inhibit
exits.
A typical use case is to prevent the session from going idle (and thus locking the screen) while a movie player is running.
OPTIONS -h, --help
print help and exit
--version
print version information and exit
--app-id ID
The application id to use when calling the gnome-session Inhibit() method. If this option is not specified, "unknown" is used.
--reason REASON
A human-readable reason to pass along when calling the gnome-session Inhibit() method. If this option is not specified, "not specified"
is used.
--inhibit ARG
ARG specifies the things to inhibit, as a colon-separated list. The possible values are logout, switch-user, suspend, idle, automount.
If this option is used more than once, the values are combined. If this option is not specified, "idle" is assumed.
--inhibit-only
Do not launch COMMAND and wait forever instead
SEE ALSO systemd-inhibit(1)gnome-sessionGNOME-SESSION-INHI(1)