Yes, I'd found xscreensaver-command -watch and I'm currently watching the XScreenSaver on the Pi. I will probably take the little perl script and modify it to suit. Thanks for your assistance!
Interesting. When I used tvservice -o the monitor instantly blanked, and seconds later there was a brief "No Signal" warning, then the backlight went out. Yaaay! But when I touched a key or moved the mouse, the sceen didn't "wake up" again. I logged in via SSH and ran tvservice -p and the backlight ...
<sigh> No, the RPi itself doesn't sleep. But DPMS is enabled with values of Standby: 2400, Suspend: 3600, Off: 4800. So, after a short period of inactivity, the machine should begin switching the monitor from standby to suspend to off. But those states are all the same to the outside observer -- yes...
I can't figure out how to get the monitor backlight to turn off when the machine sleeps, so it's been running for months. The screen is blanked in screen saver mode, but the blue LED on the monitor shows it to be fully powered up and the backlight is on. (It's the same in the GUI, or console.) Start...
I'm trying to add an item to the menu. I created a file ~/.local/share/applications/myitem.desktop which looks like this: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=My Item Exec=/home/me/myitem Terminal=false Categories=Electronics; and the item appears in the "Electronics" sub-menu after I run lxpanelct...
I don't need to know how to disable screen saver in X. I need to know how to ENABLE the screen saver in the CONSOLE, and particularly, how to make it extinguish the monitor's backlight.
I'm a long-time Linux user, but I'm new to Pi and Rasbian, so I need some help. I have my Pi2 set up so that at the console, the screen saver kicks in after 10 minutes, and that's fine. But all that happens is the screen gets written with blanks. The backlight stays on, and there is no power saving ...