Meililx has the LXQt desktop environment which already have the lxqt-powermanagement package. We don’t need to configure the power management during an event. Every time when an ISO is booted a pop-up arrives which asks to configure power. On the one hand, the pop-ups are a disturbing element during a presentation, slide-show, etc. On the other hand, while a presentation is going on and the presenter is explaining a slide for a longer duration then there is a possibility of the screen to turn blank or screen saver to get started due to inactivity. In this post we will discuss to resolve the above two issues.
Disabling Power Management
The issue has been filed #133 to solve. We can follow two approaches to shutdown the power daemon which is responsible for starting the power-management everytime during startup.
In the beginning the issue looks as:
One is to copy the script to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf by editing the meilix-default-settings metapackage.
1. [panel1] 2. alignment=-1 3. animation-duration=0 4. background-color=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\0\xff\xff\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0) 5. background-image= 6. desktop=0 7. font-color=@Variant(\0\0\0\x43\0\xff\xff\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0) 8. hidable=true 9. iconSize=22 10. lineCount=1 11. lockPanel=false 12. opacity=100 13.panelSize=32 14. plugins=mainmenu, desktopswitch, quicklaunch, taskbar, tray, statusnotifier, mount, volume, clock, showdesktop 15. position=Bottom 16. show-delay=0 17. width=100 18. width-percent=true
Explanation of code:
In the Monitor section, DPMS (Desktop Power Management System) is turned off by setting the value to false
In the ServerLayout section, Blanktime, Offtime, SuspendTime, StandbyTime are set to “0”, so that they will be disabled.
Through this way we are suspending the power-management to use it feature by making changes in the script. This approach will make sure that this feature can’t be changed through the GUI, too.
And the other approach is the basic one but it’s also fulfilling the similar need. Adding a line to chroot.sh
apt-get purge lxqt-powermanagement
Both will solve the issue and the pop will not arrive at the startup of the OS.
Now LXQt desktop starts as:
Disabling Blanking of Screen in Meilix
A presenter never wants to turn his monitor blank or screensaver while presenting his presentation. Here we will edit the .profile file in the home folder to fulfill our requirement.
For get the same file in the ISO, we need to patch the file meilix-default-settings/etc/skel/.profile.
Skel folder has the property to transfer the tree inside the folder to the home folder of the new user created. For example here, the new user created will have .profile folder inside its home directory and it will apply the requested changes.
Important code which is responsible for turning the blanking of screen off:
xset s off && xset -dpms
Link to important pages:
Disabling Power Management – Arch Wiki
Code for turning Power Management (PR) – @meets2tarun (author)
Code for turning off blanking of screen (PR) – @meets2tarun (author)