After about 10 minutes, Xubuntu 14.04 goes to sleep all by itself. I've set up the shuffle on the music player and it only gets through 3 songs before I have to sign in again. There is no screensaver installed and the power setting for AC is set to never shut down. So, what do I need to do?
light-locker is the new screen locking program in Xubuntu 14.04. If you disable light-locker, it should stop locking your screen.
How to disable lightlocker
killall light-locker
.Source: Disabling screen lock is not possible
There is an easy way: Go to Settings -> Screensaver. In the "Lock Screen" tab, disable the lock screen.
One more solution - start a program below:
and shift the
Enable light-Locking
slider to theOFF
position, then hitClose
.This panel contains two
Screensaver
sliders as well.On my Xubuntu 14.04 install, even when I had Light Locker completely disabled, my screen still blanked after about ten minutes. The solution to my problem was to run the following command:
Make sure you run this command from your desktop session and not through an ssh session, or the DISPLAY variable will not be set and this command will not work.
more info: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1346567
a bug report has been filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/498366
even more info: http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html
This worked for me:
It was based on some info in this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-locker/+bug/1287255
As of 2021, (Xubuntu 20.04.3 LTS), it has moved to the 'Screensaver' options.
Thus, one can run $ xfce4-screensaver-preferences and disable the screen lock therein. (One gets the same menu as the one posted by Kaaveh Mohamedi).
You can edit the file at
/etc/xdg/autostart/light-locker.desktop
and add the lineas documented here. This will disable
light-locker
globally, which is nice if your family starts complaining that they cannot unlock their desktops. You can copy the file to~/.config/autostart
first to disable it for a specific user only.Provided more intuitively from the resource in Nacht's answer.
If you use nvidia xorg drivers and have gone as far as to nuke light-locker and gnome-screensaver from your system, and
sudo xset s 0 0
doesn't work for you (your screen still blanks),edit
xorg.conf
wherever you saved it (typically saved in/etc/X11/
) like so:...
save, and reboot
your screen should no longer blank after 10 minutes