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02-06-2020

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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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distccmon-gnome

Distccmon-gnome(1)					      General Commands Manual						Distccmon-gnome(1)

NAME

       Distccmon-gnome - GTK monitor for distcc a distributed client and server

SYNOPSIS

       distccmon-gnome [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the Distccmon-gnome commands.

OPTIONS

       This version of distccmon-gnome understands the following command line options:

       --load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,...
	      Dynamic modules to load

       -?, --help
	      Show this help message

       --usage
	      Display brief usage message

       --gdk-debug=FLAGS
	      Gdk debugging flags to set

       --gdk-no-debug=FLAGS
	      Gdk debugging flags to unset

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use

       --screen=SCREEN
	      X screen to use

       --sync Make X calls synchronous

       --name=NAME
	      Program name as used by the window manager

       --class=CLASS
	      Program class as used by the window manager

       --gtk-debug=FLAGES
	      Gtk+ debugging flags to set

       --gtk-no-debug=FLAGS
	      Gtk+ debugging flags to unset

       --g-fatal-warnings
	      Make all warnings fatal

       --gtk-module=MODULE
	      Load an additional Gtk module

       --oaf-ior-fd=FD
	      File descriptor to print IOR on

       --oaf-activate-iid=IID
	      IID to activate

       --oaf-private
	      Prevent registering of server with OAF

       --disable-sound
	      Disable sound server usage

       --enable-sound
	      Enable sound server usage

       --espeaker=HOSTNAME:PORT
	      Host:port on which the sound server to use is running

       --version
	      Print the current version of distccmon-gnome

       --sm-client-id=ID
	      Specify session management ID

       --sm-config-prefix=PREFIX
	      Specify prefix of saved configuration

       --sm-disable
	      Disable connection to session manager

       --disable-crash-dialog
	      Disable Crash Dialog

AUTHOR

       Distccmon-gnome was written by Martin Pool.

       This manual page was written by Mohammed Adnene Trojette for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   March 1, 2005						Distccmon-gnome(1)

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