Initial Setup Q's and Some Doc Feedback

sdetweil · Dec 17, 2019, 1:28 PM

@ember1205 i didn’t set the OpenGL driver… not worth the hassle. the driver is REALLY useful for algorithmic objects, rotating in 3d… nothing we do on the mirror

sdetweil · Dec 11, 2019, 3:27 PM

@ember1205 said in Initial Setup Q's and Some Doc Feedback:

Yes. Those were all done. But, the screensaver disable was done during the install and it appears to not have modified the same files as the manual changes show.

hm… i didn’t update the doc for manual install for my new installer… there are just too many places with different solutions…

I embodied all that I know about and generalized to attempt to cover more as time goes on.

dsegel · Dec 15, 2019, 5:05 PM

@ember1205 There are three locations where the screensaver might be starting from, and only one of them is actually run (I believe the first found in this order):

/home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

Raspbian recently changed to not having the first one, so the second is now the preferred method.

sdetweil · Dec 15, 2019, 5:18 PM

@dsegel thx… already in the updated installer and the screensaver fixer scripts

ember1205 · Dec 17, 2019, 1:30 PM

@dsegel said in Initial Setup Q's and Some Doc Feedback:

@ember1205 There are three locations where the screensaver might be starting from, and only one of them is actually run (I believe the first found in this order):

/home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

Raspbian recently changed to not having the first one, so the second is now the preferred method.

So… None of that works. The ONLY way I could get the screensaver to shut off was to do:

sudo apt install xscreensaver

And then run the Screensaver Preferences setup and set it to disabled. Anything else I tried ultimately allowed the screen to go blank (black) after about 15 minutes.

sdetweil · Dec 17, 2019, 1:30 PM

@ember1205 thanks… I wished we had worked on it a little more…

i have a script that just does setting screensaver off…

haven’t had it fail on anything in a while… just tested Zorin OS. it worked properly

ember1205 · Dec 19, 2019, 3:30 PM

@sdetweil said in Initial Setup Q's and Some Doc Feedback:

@ember1205 thanks… I wished we had worked on it a little more…

i have a script that just does setting screensaver off…

haven’t had it fail on anything in a while… just tested Zorin OS. it worked properly

I’m going to try a fresh build and will use your script to see how it fares on this exact version of Raspbian…

sdetweil · Dec 19, 2019, 3:35 PM

@ember1205 k… let me know

ember1205 · Dec 20, 2019, 5:19 PM

I have started my new build from scratch and used your install script.

There are a number of ‘vulnerability’ warnings that show, and I’m curious if I should actually try and repair them with the suggested npm commands or not.

Also, so far, the screensaver does seem to be disabled, but I haven’t yet jumped into the MM configuration to put in place the same modules I had been using on the other setup as of yet.

sdetweil · Dec 20, 2019, 5:23 PM

@ember1205 yes, the vulnerability warnings are troublesome… they usually cannot be all resolved, and some modules fixes force changes that break applications using them. i prefer NOT to attempt to resolve the problems…

screensaver…

can u show/send me the ~/install.log

my email is the same userid as here on gmail