Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

["Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com>]

On Friday 07 January 2022 12:30:55 pm Dan Ritter wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: 
> > On Thursday 06 January 2022 11:46:33 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: 
> > > > Not sure what I'm looking at here...
> > > 
> > > No processes with a suitable name.
> > > 
> > > Is the "screensaver" showing pictures, or just going black after
> > > a while?
> > 
> > It just goes black.  The inside of the window that virtualbox uses,  that is.  Nothing of the sort happening on the host machine.
> 
> 
> Ah-hah.
> 
> Inside the virtualbox, run 
> 
> xset s off
> 
> which will turn off the built-in X11 screen blanker. 
> 
> man xset for details.
> 
> -dsr-
 
Okay,  tried that and we'll see what happens.

My question,  then,  is what would have turned this on?  It wasn't on before...

And,  please don't cc to my direct address,  I do get the list here and I do read all of the messages.  Doing so only results in me getting the message twice,  which is not necessary or desirable.


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