Thanks everyone for the erplies. I am still having the same issue, but doing some more testing and reading. I found this post:
http://www.geeks3d.com/hacklab/20160108/how-to-disable-the-blank-screen-on-raspberry-pi-raspbian/
In theory, just modifying the lightdm.conf should do the trick with newer versions of Raspbian Jessie Lite. I will poke around some more, hopefully i find a fix, so I can provide something back to this community.
So here is how I was able to fix my issue with the screen saver. I started this project following the tutorial from here:
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Jessie-Lite-Installation-Guide
When you get to the Disable the ScreenSaver portion of the article, instead of changing the autostart file under
/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
You should modify the autostart file under ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
Comment the first 3 lines (using a #), then add the same three lines listed in the tutorial. The final autostart file after all modifications should look similar to:
#@lxpanel --profile LXDE
#@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
#@xscreensaver -no-splash
@xset s noblack
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
Once that is done, follow the instructions to modify the lightdm.conf file:
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[SeatDefaults]
xserver-command=X -s 0 -dpms
Save the changes, reboot your raspberry pi (I am using an RPi3), and the screen saver is gone for good. Hopefully this helps someone else having the same issue.
Thanks everyone for the erplies. I am still having the same issue, but doing some more testing and reading. I found this post:
http://www.geeks3d.com/hacklab/20160108/how-to-disable-the-blank-screen-on-raspberry-pi-raspbian/
In theory, just modifying the lightdm.conf should do the trick with newer versions of Raspbian Jessie Lite. I will poke around some more, hopefully i find a fix, so I can provide something back to this community.
@KirAsh4 I am reviving this topic as I have run into this same issue and have not been able to figure how to solve it. I started playing with a Magic Mirror a few days back (thanks to all the contributors), prior to that, I have read multiple posts, tutorials, blogs, etc; one of them is actually from you @KirAsh4
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial
You mention that there are two locatons where chagnes need to be made in order to disable the screen saver:
’ sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart ’
’ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ’
I am not able to find the first file, so I started reading this forum and came across this post:
https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Jessie-Lite-Installation-Guide
following the directions, the first file is on a different location:
’ sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart ’
I did find that file and made the changes as described, my autostart file looks like this:
@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@xset s noblank
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
I also changed the second variable under ’ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ', I verified that I am indeed changing the actual variable and not the variable description. As far as I can tell, everything has been done as stipulated in the tutorials, but my screen saver still kicks in every 5 minutes (roughly). Is there anything that I am leaving out, thus creating the issue. I started witha fresh Jessie Lite installation following the tutorial: https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Jessie-Lite-Installation-Guide
Any help will be greatly appreciated, I have been stumbling around reading forum entries here and at the raspberry pi foundation, but nothing seems to solve my problem (and I am no Linux guru), so any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated