[GTALUG] Keep X from going to sleep

[Mauro Souza]

I have an old generic laptop with a dead screen, and I wired it to my TV
using the hdmi port. Some times the screen does not come back too, and I
discovered that pressing ctrl-alt-f1 and ctrl-alt-f8 it comes back without
having to kill X.
On Mar 17, 2015 6:10 PM, "R Russell Reiter" <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just checked some exploits from the last year. There is one WiFi attack
> which targets the red wire of video, in effect capturing frames which are
> carried on it. It is a directed attack, but what I'm getting at is that
> there may be a possibility of RF interference. I remember back in the say
> that running cable for IBM token ring networks was problematic if the
> wiring ran parallel to AC carried over Romex wiring and completely FUBAR
> crossing near florescent lighting.
> So your cables are all neat and tidy and not close to ac cables, lighting
> ballasts or compact fluorescent lights, and in a place with relatively
> modern and properly grounded power, right.
> If so I think its possible that on wake events, the palate Damon doesn't
> release the blank screen, which is a signal of its own, rather than the
> lack of a signal, as we tend to assume that's what a nothing is.
>
> On March 17, 2015 11:47:46 AM EDT, William Witteman <wwitteman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On 17 March 2015 at 10:58, Russell Reiter <rreiter91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 71 tabs you had pinned or 71 new tabs?
> >
> >Just however many tabs were open when killing X took out Firefox, so
> >it asks me (very pleasantly, I think) if I want them back.  I usually
> >do.
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