I’ve only just installed ZorinOS for the first time - lite on an old netbook - and I love it. So responsive where other distros have struggled.
My only issue so far is stopping the screen timeout so the screen stays on at all times. I have tried disabling all timeouts I can find for the screensaver and power saving but it still happens.
I found a thread on the old forum that suggested running
sudo xset s 0 0
to disable timeout on xscreensaver and that works, but it reverts back after a restart.
I tried putting the command in Session and Startup, and also putting it in /etc/rc.local and setting chmod for execute but neither of those have worked either.
Any ideas welcome, thanks!
Welcome, Riyaxi.
Could you please confirm that on Settings->Power, you have tried both the Blank screen set to ‘Never’ as well as the ‘Dim screen when inactive’ toggle? Just to be sure we’re on the same page.
PS - you wrote you’re using Lite, correct? The settings may be different for you (I’m using Core) but please go ahead and confirm the exact steps, similar to how I wrote.
Hi, really sorry, I thought I set this up for notifications and missed your reply.
Under Settings > Power Manager I have tried both having “Display power management” enabled with all settings set to never, and also disabling “Display power management” completely.
For brightness reduction I have “On inactivity reduce to” set to 100% and “reduce after” set to Never.
Thanks for the information Aravisian, it’s much appreciated.
I can confirm that, for me, Caffeine works as expected and stops the screensaver coming on/screen turning off. I haven’t found a way to activate Caffeine by default yet, so for me my options at the moment - after reboot - are:
Activate caffeine
or
Run sudo xset s 0 0 in terminal
I think I am going to keep trying to dig into why I can’t get rc.local to work as it would be great if I could run that command on startup.
I do, yes. I only just realized that caffeine and caffeine indicator are different apps - I was activating with indicator but maybe I just need to have caffeine start on boot.
@Aravisian@swarfendor437
Update… I gave up on Zorin 15.2 32 Bit… too many things driving me crazy. I decided I would fresh install Zorin 15.3 32 Bit over it. I accidentally installed Zorin Ultimate 15.3 64 Bit over it… lol … it works… lol
I don’t understand how that can work but it is… so I will leave it for now.
I had previously installed one of my favorite browsers on the the 15.2 32 Bit version… Vivaldi 32 BIT it said it was for Linux-DEB 32 Bit… so I thought it would work… but I was wrong. Now I have installed the 64 Bit version of Linux-Deb and it doesn’t work either. I think I need a magic wand!
Question… how do you uninstall a program???
As much as I hate to, I will delete Vivaldi. I happen to love it. I use it strictly for watching online videos, movies & tv shows. It eliminates the need to use Chrome or Edge.
Thanks!
Deeanna
PS… Will try sending you both a private message now… if you don’t get it… send me one!