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



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