Is there a screensaver settings GUI for OpenBox/LXDE?

I am using Lubuntu and I can't find any GUI for screensaver settings. I am missing something ?

Lubuntu 13.10 .

3 Answers

What about this:

Menu>Preferences>Screensaver Preferences

Suggest you check in ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh with your favorite text editor to see if it is launching xscreensaver.

If you can't launch xscreensaver, perhaps it was not installed; run apt-get install -y xscreensaver

To check your current xset configuration, open the terminal and type this:xset q

You'll then be shown what's set. You can see there these which are the ones you want to change:

$ xset q
...
Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 600 cycle: 600
...
DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On

After you fallowed the instructions above, if again you type xset -q in the terminal, you'll see that now it has changed to:

$ xset q
...
Screen Saver: prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 600
...
DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 600 Suspend: 600 Off: 600 DPMS is Disabled

So now you can see that there's no blanking, no timeout and DPMS is disabled.

In the future if you want to turn them on again, just go to Menu/Control Menu/Settings/Default Applications for LXSession->Autostart and remove all the xset commands you entered.

If during a session you want to turn on some of the settings that you disabled, just enter in the terminal the proper commands following.

• enable blanking screensaver:xset s blank
• ten minute interval:xset s 600 600
• enable power management:xset +dpms

For more information you can type xset on the terminal and press Enter>, you'll be shown all the available options.

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