[PLUG] Raspbian Wheezy Screensaver Shutoff - Raspberry Pi

[Bill Barry]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Noj <nojunkster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been googling for ways to prevent the screensaver from blanking
> the screen every 10 min in the Raspbian Wheezy Ubuntu GUI. I've found
> 2 reasonable-sounding methods that had no effect at all, seems there's
> a lot of confusion on this. Was using a raspbian boot image from
> October last year, now using the raspbian image that came out last
> month (July 27?).
>
> One kludge that occured to me was have a cron task that simulated a
> slight mouse movement or press of the shift key every 5 minutes, but
> not obvious to me if/how that would be possible.

I don't have a Raspberry Pi, but I do know that there is not much
reason for a screensaver on an LCD screen. Probably what you have
instead is some kind of power saving scheme and one of the things it
does is turn off the screen. Have you checked the power saving
configuration?

Bill