Screensaver In C7

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I’m at the stage of poking at a C7 install in Vbox, and am struggling to figure out how to control the screensaver. there doesn’t seem to be a gnome screensaver package (like there was in gnome2), and I can’t find any installed packages that control it. gconf-editor doesn’t have anything that looks promising…

how does one control the screensaver in Gnome 3?

thanks!

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  • I think System -> Tweak Tool -> Power or something like that is where you configure Lock.

    As for gnome-screensaver package, if you are sure it is not in base repo, look in EPEL and last stop is Fedora 19 repository, so far most missing pakcages in CentOS 7 can be installed from Fedora 19 repository:

    [fedora]
    name=Fedora 19

  • thanks for the suggestion. but tweak tool doesn’t contain (AFAICS)
    anything about blanking the screen (which happens) or the timeout used therefore, or about the fact that it also locks the screen. These things all used to be done in gnome-screensaver.

    this is my own personal workstation, and I’d like it to NOT lock the screen when tne screen blanks from a timeout (I probably would not want it to work that way at the office), but don’t see any way to change that setting, wherever it is being set.

    yum list installed | grep -y screen, or yum list available | grep -y screen shows nothing named (anything like) “screensaver”, except for what is apparently a KDE screensaver package.

    While it’s possible RH/CentOS chose not to distribute gnome screensaver
    (though I’m not sure I can comprehend WHY), something on the system is blanking the screen and locking it, and I can’t, so far, figure out what.

    I’d like to understand what is happening before importing packages from another distro.

  • Google is your friend:

    “If you go into the “Activates” then type “settings” click on the icon that has a spanner and a screwdriver and says “Settings”. When it has opened, click on the the icon that looks like a lock dial and says
    “Privacy”. Now click on the item that says “Screen Lock” then click on the toggle switch next the text that says “Automatic Screen Lock”. Press the button that says Close, and now the item that says “Screen Lock”
    should have “Off” next to it.”
    https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/36256/how-do-i-disable-the-gnome-lock-screen/

  • If the locking was your only problem I guess this is solved, but if want to control other aspects (e.g. when/if blanking occurs) you’ll find that under “Power” in settings.

    You can also find it by typing “blank” in settings. This can of course be used to find other things too.

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