Disable the screensaver in Red Hat

Question

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 2).

Please help to disable the screensaver.

Solution

To disable for the current user:

gconftool-2 --set -t boolean /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled false

To set the system default to disabled:

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --set -t boolean /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled false

To re-enable it you simply change the bool from false to true, like so:

re-enable current user:

gconftool-2 --set -t boolean /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled true

re-enable default:

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --set -t boolean /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled true

Comments

[Lorenzo Von Matterhorn]

please provide guidance on how to re-enable it again. it might be useful to the QA or any other reader.

[h3rrmiller]

@Znau good point, edited