Disable Screen Savers on a Virtual Machine

Question

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 machine running on a Hyper-V server. A while back, I downloaded and installed XRDP so that we could enable RDP connectivity (more as an experiment than anything else). Recently I noticed that some screensaver software (fiberlamp, etc.) was running and consuming CPU unnecessarily. We rarely actually use the RDP connection, so this isn't happening with a logged-in user. And as it's a virtual machine, there's no real screen to "save". Is there an easy way to tell Ubuntu to never run screensavers? Pretty much all the solutions I've been able to find are for logged-in users who had trouble with screensavers running when videos played, etc. I just want to disable the little critters totally.

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/67355/how-do-i-completely-turn-off-screensaver-and-power-management — Takkat, Jun 21 '17 at 16:44

QwertyChouskie · Answer 1 · 2017-06-21T17:45:00.210

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Just uninstall whatever package provides the screensaver. E.g. for xscreensaver:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge xscreensaver*

Or gnome-screensaver:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge gnome-screensaver*

Or cinnamon-screensaver:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge cinnamon-screensaver*

edited Jun 21 '17 at 17:45

answered Jun 21 '17 at 16:35

QwertyChouskie

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Thanks! That seems to have worked, with one edit. I had to use apt-get instead of apt. – Garrett Michael Hayes Jun 21 '17 at 17:31
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You're welcome. I forgot that 14.04 uses apt-get only, as 16.04+ support apt, which has a nice progress indicator and some other differences. – QwertyChouskie Jun 21 '17 at 17:46

Disable Screen Savers on a Virtual Machine

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