I installed imake from source but it needs something else to work?

Be aware that to use those you need to have dpms on

I use xset +dpms – is that the same?

Check this one too
https://ptspts.blogspot.com/2009/10/screen-blanking-dpms-screen-saver.html

well I have tried EVERYTHING and no joy!! Going to kill off all running programs, eg telegram, and see if I can get it to work – the only way it works is to use xset force blah

How do you use it? by command?
Use xset +dpms && xset dpms 300 600 900
I guess if you need to use force is cause you have dpms disable, try to enable it and then run your command

ok I have restarted X and used xset s on and xset dpms 120 180 240 and now its working! go figure!!

xdddd Like I told you, better to make a monitor config with those options

yeah 🙂

just starting programs one by one and testing its still working – so far so good …

Perfect!!

now I just need to be able to start my screen locking program …

me again 😎 – as you may know I use the Vivaldi browser which works fine , except for audio which refuses to use my standard speakers (on Dell monitor connected via HDMI) but insist on using the one(s) built into my Mac Mini – which as you expect sound crap! According to this Arch page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vivaldi) I need to install ‘ vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs’ – has anyone converted them to venom please?

Also I have purchased a Logitech M720 mouse which, as well as coming with a connector, is supposed to support bluetooth – however when I connect, which it does fine, nothing happens, ie. no movement or clicks are registered. According to the Arch wiki I need some thing called bluez-utils-compat which adds support for LE devices. Has anyone tested this please? Thanks

While I’m on a roll 😎 – has anyone got xautolock working on venom please? I fail at the first install command 🙁

Yes, no problem here, neither with make install or make install.man

what do you mean by ‘install.man’ please?

make says ‘no targets’!

Command to install the manpages if they are not installed by just running “make install”

the first install command (according to the Readme file) is ‘xmkmf’ which is part of imake. I installed imake from source but it needs something else to work? Maybe you could send me your xautolock binary please?

“make install” does a few other things exept just installing the binary, so I do not think that is a good idea. Try xmkmf -a

bash-5.1$ xmkmf -a
mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/local/lib/X11/config
Imakefile.c:34:2: fatal error: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
imake: Exit code 1.
Stop.
bash-5.1$

same error I get regardless of how I run xmkmf

This is what I used, it should be enough to run “make install” and then “make install.man” from the top directory (not ./src)

thanks

Does it work?

well its installed it 🙂

Great!

Imake.tmpl is in xorg-cf-files package https://www.x.org/releases/individual/util/

ahh thanks – well this is working now 🙂

thanks again

Always nice to be able to help someone, usually I am the one asking for help…

well I spoke too soon 🙁 After a reboot I can’t get xautolock to work at all, tghink there is a clash between xset and xautolock – have used ‘xset -dpms’ which disables the xset screensaver however xautolock refuses to function 🙁

Damn this is confusing!! Now it is all working! The magical change was to specify the -locker program with a shell script (found an obscure reference on reddit) – who knows why this fixes it but I’m not arguing 🙂

I think your problem start when you disable dmps…… I guess xauthlock needs it

nope , as I have this line in my openbox autostart file …