Diving into squirrel-scripting: some questions

[Arcade-TV]

Not sure what a screen blank is.

or a console-blanking, when the screen turns off - a screensaver.
as I said I already went for the grub-option but it's not working.

RetroArch has some kind of disabling that works a charm...

[keilmillerjr]

Not sure what a screen blank is.

or a console-blanking, when the screen turns off - a screensaver.
as I said I already went for the grub-option but it's not working.

RetroArch has some kind of disabling that works a charm...

What distro are you using?

[Arcade-TV]

What distro are you using?

Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS

[keilmillerjr]

What distro are you using?

Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS

A lot of answers in this thread might help you: https://askubuntu.com/questions/138918/how-do-i-disable-the-blank-console-screensaver-on-ubuntu-server

[Arcade-TV]

Unfortunately I already tried every grub-related solution prior to my post and none of those work for me.
Must be something related to X, I dunno.

[Arcade-TV]

I have decided to use 2 layouts, one for menu and one for lists.
Now, if I wanted to return from a display straight into the last viewed system I need to fill and read a global variable.

In my menu layout:

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if(::last_display_index){
    jumpToSystem(::last_display_index);
}else{
    jumpToSystem(0);
}

and in the Emulator/List layout:

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::last_display_index = fe.list.display_index;

This kind of declaration must be wrong, because I always get "The index last_display_index does not exist."[/s]


edit:
The solution to this was rather simple...

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local sys_index = fe.list.index;
local sys_index_name = fe.displays[sys_index].name;
my "sys_index" controlls the system to show.

[Arcade-TV]

I think I managed to get rid of the screensaver by disabling DPMS with "xset":

Check for any blanking, screensaver, timeouts and DPMS (Energy Star) with

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xset q

Disable DPMS:

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xset -dpms

Don't forget to add these to a script and execute it on startup.