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Originally Posted by bruce kissinger View Post
Elsewhere in this thread people have asked about methods for keeping the screen display on rather than having it blank out after a few minutes. I would like to use Navit on my N800 while riding my motorcycle, but the screen display problem kept me from doing so.

I found an old post at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ghlight=arnims

that describes the commands to change the screen display settings. In a nutshell, you open up a terminal on your N8xx and then use the gconftool to modify the settings. For example, to set your display dim and blank timeouts directly (for e.g. to 1/2 hour and 1 hour - 1800 and 3600 seconds respectively) run this from ssh/xterm:

gconftool-2 -s "/system/osso/dsm/display/display_dim_timeout" 1800 -t INT
gconftool-2 -s "/system/osso/dsm/display/display_blank_timeout" 3600 -t INT
You might try Navit in full screen zoom. I believe that when you run Maemo Mapper in full screen it doesn't dim the screen. Navit might do the same.
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