Hi Gene! You'll have to add a "xhost +" somewhere in your X11 session, otherwise it'll not work. Nik Am Freitag, 20. März 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Friday 20 March 2015 11:31:12 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I recall I had a heck of a time in the past with the older kde, in > > keeping the monitors/screensaver set so it might show a few minutes of > > the screensaver of choice, and to powerdown the monitor after a few > > minutes of screen saver. But it can't remember those settings more > > than a week or so, so I just put a couple entries in my crontab: > > > > */1 * * * * * xset +dpms > > */1 * * * * * xset dpms 300 0 600 > > Actually this is wrong as it then is effectively * * * * * *, the star > string s/b * */1 * * * * as it was doing it on the minute, but then cron > was emailing me that it could not open display "", so I have now made it > hourly, and added -display 0:0 after the xset to see if that works... > > Gotta be a way to make this work. I would have and had always assumed > that doing something from the crontab was exactly like my typing it into > a terminal, so whats the deal with that? Why can't my crontab do > anything I can type? > > > To see if refreshing its memory hourly will effect a fix. > > > > But it sure would be nice if we didn't have to overpower it like that > > to keep it working. > > > > In TDE control center, its set 5,0,10 but that seems not to affect it, > > when it has failed the pheripherals/display/screensaver and display > > power management are all zeroed out or the checkboxes cleared. > > It appears is as if a zmalloc has gone astray? > > Under appearance/screensaver its set to start a slide show after 4 > > minutes. The memory of whatever it uses for the "elevator music for > > the eyeball" also seems transient, it switches to either a blank > > screen or some glx thing that burns up the cpu, again at random > > intervals that do not seem to correlate with the dpms settings > > failures. > > > > Info, bug action, your pick. ;-) > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp Einnehmerstraße 14 A-4810 Gmunden Tel.: +43 650 82 11 724 email: office@...