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Any way to detect what is disabling the screensaver?
Run powercfg /requests from an Admin Command Prompt. For example, mine printed:
DISPLAY:
[PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume8\Games\Origin\Origin.exe
Playing video
SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] Realtek High ...
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How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows?
A lot of these answers are old, and only keep alive through inputs/mouse movement. Compile this in C or C++, this will keep the session alive by setting thread execution state (Windows Only ofcourse)
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How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows?
1. (Best option) Microsoft PowerToys Awake
PowerToys Awake
How it works under the hood
The tool uses the SetThreadExecutionState WinApi function to keep the screen on. It is the function that video ...
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How to unlock screen from script in KDE Plasma 5?
Not really my answer, but it might be useful to someone else too.
It comes from https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=130691#p350000 and it works on latest archlinux with kde 5.7
loginctl ...
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How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows?
Extending on Cherona's answer, here is an implementation in PowerShell, using SetThreadExecutionState().
As long the script is running, screen saver and screen lock wouldn't start.
Set-StrictMode -...
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How can I get my display to turn off on-demand?
Based on this Windows 7 answer which links to this script page, and checking this MSDN library page, that the codes used are correct you can run the powershell script below to switch the screen off. I ...
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centos 7: control idle (screen blanking) time?
GUI way:
1. In the upper right corner "USERNAME" menu select "Settings"
2. Go to "Power"
3. "Power Saving->Blank Screen" = can be set from 1 - 15 minutes
Command line way (to view and set it to 5 ...
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Transparent screensaver for linux?
This question is old, but in case people stumble across it, I use xtrlock for this purpose:
$ apt-cache show xtrlock
[...]
Description-en: Minimal X display lock program
xtrlock is a very minimal X ...
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VLC is keeping computer active , and preventing it from going to sleep or display screensaver ?
Open VLC
Select Tools/Preferences
At the bottom left is "Show settings" - select All
Select Video
on the right, uncheck "Disable Screensaver"
Click Save
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Debian XFCE screen locking and session logout
In settings manager "Session and Startup" choose the "Application Autostart" tab and uncheck "Screen Locker" - keep "Screensaver" checked
Here is the screenshot.
Menu > Sessions Startup > ...
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How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows?
I like to use easy and integrated options (no additional software), like a powershell script (thanks https://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/prevent-desktop-lock-or-screensaver-with-powershell/...
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How to disable the 10 minute screen timeout/lock in KDE?
In KDE5 as of 2021-APR:
Open System Settings
Search "Screen Locking"
Adjust "Lock screen automatically"
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Windows 10, Screensaver greyed out
If your sytem is not connected to a domain, then try this:
Start Regedit.exe and goto:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop
Delete these values in the right-...
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Stop screensaver and lock session on Debian by command line
This works for me on Debian 9:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 0
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 0
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How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows?
Mouse Jiggler might be an option:
https://mousejiggler.codeplex.com/
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Windows 10 Screen Saver Multiple Monitors?
UPDATE October, 2017: Windows 10 now natively supports screen savers on all monitors by default. I do not know what version this was implemented on, but I am running 1703 (Creators Update) and this is ...
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How can I prevent a policy-enforced screen lock in Windows?
This is a solution which works for Win10 and with MS Office (that is, PowerPoint) installed:
MS PowerPoint (if MS Office is installed). Hit F5 to start "presentation mode". Now move to a ...
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Is After Dark compatible for Windows 10?
I was able to make sense of the preferences by installing AD on Windows XP and looking in REGEDIT.
Mute All Sounds: Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Berkley Systems\After Dark add a REG_DWORD ...
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Windows 10, Screensaver greyed out
If your PC is on a Windows domain and these settings are enforced by a domain Group Policy, then you can still BLOCK the GPO settings from being (re)applied.
Click 'Start' button, start typing '...
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Is having a slide show screen saver on 24/7 bad?
There is no definitive answer to this. Mean time to failure is just that - an average. If you took 1000 screens & ran them all 24/7 some would die in a week, some would be fine after 10 years, the ...
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Screen saver won't activate
In my case, it turned out to be a USB Game Controller, as mentioned in the comments. Once I unplugged it, my screensaver came on right at the 1 minute setting.
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How to disable the 10 minute screen timeout/lock in KDE?
On KDE 5,
You could configure it through the System settings' Screen Locking GUI.
What it actually does is modify ~/.config/kscreenlockerrc, which you could also do on a terminal with the command: ...
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Is After Dark compatible for Windows 10?
I was able to install After Dark in Windows 10 as shown in the other answers, running /ADE/Setup.exe using Windows 95 compatibility.
The problem I am having is that the default screen saver seems to ...
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Is After Dark compatible for Windows 10?
You can now run After Dark as a Windows 10/11 screen saver. It actually boots Windows 98 in DOSBox-X but I have set it up to auto-run After Dark and then exit when you move the mouse or press a key. ...
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Weston screen blanking
From man pages for weston.ini, to disable screen locking, add next lines:
[core]
idle-time=0
[shell]
locking=false
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How to turn screensaver on immediately after locking computer?
The built-in screensavers should be in the %windir%\SysWOW64 folder (e.g. Mystify.scr, Ribbons.scr, scrnsave.scr). You could add a Windows shortcut that runs one of these files. You could also add a ...
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How can I get my display to turn off on-demand?
I'm wondering if I can have that same function on-demand.
Use nircmd from nirsoft (if it is supported by your monitor):
nircmd monitor off
monitor [action]
Changes the state of the display ...
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How to launch Plex Media Server without logging in - or defer windows password on boot?
Heres my own answer to my question! I am really happy with how its turned out so I figured it may be useful for someone else in future. The idea hadn't occured to me previously, otherwise I would ...
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Prompt for password when exiting presentation
Unfortunately this isn't possible as users could still exit the application via Alt + F4, or through Task Manager.
If the slideshow is being presented on an external display, then a possible solution ...
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