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I have infamous screen going black after 10 minutes or so despite trying several solutions to avoid it in Ubuntu 12.04

So i decided for the last solution which is emulating mouse move every 9 minutes I've downloaded xdotool.

My questions, and i guess they require simple answers (which are needed, because I’m not really a comp freak):

  1. Do I have to make a script for that.

  2. How do I make a script and where do I save it.

  3. How to make it running automatically (every time computer starts), if that's not happening by default

So, I want to just emulate a mouse move by one pixel every 9 minutes, so that it is not disturbing and is efficient in keeping screen not going black

After googling, I tried something like this :

Creating file .noblackscreen.sh in home directory (where documents, music... folders are); typing in:

#!/bin/bash

while sleep 540
do

xdotool mousemove_relative 1 1

done

what do i do wrong thanx so much

penreturns
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user98378
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The script does move the mouse pointer a little, every 540 seconds.

Have actually run it, either manually every time or automatically at startup? If not, open startup applications and add an entry with the command sh ~/.noblackscreen.sh. The script should now autostart at login.

If the script is already running, I'm out of ideas. Just a wild guess, but possibly the mouse got stuck in the lower right corner and the script has no effect? Or may be jiggling the mouse pointer has no effect?

Mahesh
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