02-06-2020
Disable Solaris Gnome 3 screen blanker
One of the more annoying features of the Gnome 3 desktop in Solaris 11 is its insistence on blanking the screen after five minutes of inactivity. And for the life of me I can't figure out how to make it top doing that. I'm running it in a VNC viewer so the host PC can take care of screen blanking.
I tried the Dconf Editor going to org -> gnome -> settings-daemon -> plugins -> power and unchecked "idle-dim". sleep-inactive-ac-timeout was already et to 0.
I tried org -> desktop -> applications -> lockdown -> check "disable-lock-screen".
I tried exiting the vnc viewer and strarting a new vnc server. But none of this works. The screen still blanks after five minutes. There's plenty of stuff on the web on how to do this in Linux and indeed I was able to do it in a Ubuntu VM running Gnome 3 but I just can't get it to work in Solaris 11. What am I missing here?
UPDATE
There's something about posting a question in public that causes the answer to come to you. In this case here is what to do.
Run the DConf Editor (Top menu Applications-> System Tools -> dconf editor) and go to org -> gnome -> desktop -> session and set "idle-delay" to 0. The screen will no longer blank out. No reboot needed. I'll leave this topic up because AFAIK this is the only place on the web that has this secret,
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VINAGRE(1) General Commands Manual VINAGRE(1)
NAME
vinagre - a remote desktop viewer for the GNOME Desktop
SYNOPSYS
vinagre [OPTIONS] [server][::port|:display]
DESCRIPTION
vinagre is a remote desktop viewer for the GNOME desktop. It can support many protocols using a plugin system. Current plugins exist for
VNC and SSH. Vinagre has many features, among others:.
- Support for multiple connections simultaneously
- Bookmarks and history support
- Avahi integration
- GNOME keyring integration
- GNOME panel applet to quickly launch vinagre to access VNC servers
- You can connect to a VNC server by double clicking on a .vnc file when using nautilus.
OPTIONS
Help Options:
-?, --help
Show help options
--help-all
Show all help options
--help-gtk
Show GTK+ options
Application Options:
--help-vnc
Show VNC options
-F, --file=filename
Opens a .vnc file
-f, --fullscreen
Open vinagre in fullscreen mode
-n, --new-window
Create a new toplevel window in an existing instance of vinagre
--display=DISPLAY
X display to use
Run 'vinagre --help' to see a full list of available command line options
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
[server][::port|:display]
Specifies the VNC server to connect to. The VNC server can be either a hostname, or an IP address. If the server is an IPv6 address,
it must be enclosed by square brackets. The address can optionally be followed by two colons (::) and the VNC port number, or alter-
natively by one colon (:) and the display where Vinagre should run. If a port is not specified, default value of 5900 will be used.
If the value is lower than 1024, 5900 will be added to it. For example, ":0" means "5900" and ":1" means ":5901". If only a port is
specified, but not the hostname, localhost will be assumed. Possible values for the display are between 0 and 1024. If a display
number greater than 1024 is specified, it will be assumed to be a port. Note that you can't specify the port and the display at the
same time.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Start vinagre from the command line
example% vinagre
Example 2: Create a new top-level window
example% vinagre --new-window
Example 3: Connect to a specified VNC server and port
example% vinagre snoopy::5900
Example 4: Connect to a specified IPv4 address and port
example% vinagre 192.168.1.35::2700
Example 5: Connect to a specified IPv6 address and port
example% vinagre [2001:0db8:0:0:0:0:1428:57ab]::2700
Example 6: Connect to a VNC server specified by a .vnc file
example% vinagre -F snoopy.vnc
Example 7: Connect to localhost on a specified port in fullscreen mode
example% vinagre -f ::5900
SEE ALSO
Vinagre help manual
AUTHOR
Vinagre was written by Jonh Wendell <wendell@bani.com.br>
This manual page was written by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@ubuntu.com> and Halton Huo <halton.huo@sun.com>.
User Commands August 12th 2009 VINAGRE(1)