CentOS7 – Terminal Not Blanking

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Folks

Apparently “new” in CentOS 7 is that the terminal screen does not blank after a period of time. This is a server configuration, and no GUI is involved. Is there some magic setting I need to tweek?

Thanks in advance

David

3 thoughts on - CentOS7 – Terminal Not Blanking

  • Have you tried:

    # setterm -blank 5

    ??

    (I’ve often had to do the opposite to be able to view scrolling logs)

  • On version 5 I do

    # /usr/bin/setterm -powerdown 0 -blank 0 -term console

    to disable the blank screen. This looks more complicated than your setterm command and I do not know if the other parameters are relevant.

    On version 6 there is a consoleblank=0 kernel parameter to disable the blank.

    It is strange that you experience that. I am pretty sure I ran into a blanked CentOS 7 console last week.

  • At 08:50 AM 8/7/2014, you wrote:

    I tried the command “setterm -blank 1”, and it changed nothing. The screen was still visible having been idle all night. I have seen this phenomenon on two platforms:
    – An ASUS laptop I’m using as a test-bed
    – VM Workstation 10 on windows 7
    CentOS 6x blanks after a reasonable period on both platforms.

    Is there a command that can print out the current “setterm” settings?

    David